Apologies for not being here for Eredivisie start

August 19th, 2011 | by: Jan |

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Fer: “I’ll go to Twente…or no….wait…I’ll stay…or…hang on…I’ll go!”

Hello my dear friends, I owe you all a big apology.

I haven’t been able to enter the fray in these rocky times. The reasons are very pedestrian and have nothing to do with football, unfortunately. I’m simply totally flat out with work and at the same time terminated from a job I held ( interim management) at a non-for-profit.

The politics in the place are disastrous and “they” decided to terminate me by end of August. Damn! Shoots a massive hole in my financials and your host with the most is not in a happy place. I’m terribly pissed off, angry, hurt, and concerned as I do not believe these people know what they’re doing! It feels like I’m Bernd Schuster at Real Madrid .

As a result, I missed the bloody Eredivisie start, missed most of the Premier League action, I only saw the Spanish Super Cup final and was appalled by Mourinho and his psycho antics!

C Ronaldo again didn’t produce. Compared to Messi he’s not even a poor man’s Messi. He’s a poor man’s Elia, who’s a poor man’s Robben, who is a poor man’s Messi.

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Jose is the Special One. Which means he can kick people and poke them when he loses games.

Let’s quickly talk football: Feyenoord is off with a good start. You gotta give it to Ronald Koeman. He might have learned a little from his less than impressive stints at Ajax, PSV, Benfica and wherever else. Feyenoord plays fresh football, with without Ryo ( Arsenal), Wijnaldum ( PSV) and most likely Fer ( Twente??), I don’t believe they have the consistency or width to actually compete for the first spots. But they surely play nice football.

Ajax impresses me. The football quality is old-fashioned good. Frank de Boer knows what he’s doing. And to see Frank de Boer and Bergkamp on the bench with Blind and Davids on the stands is simply too good. Sulejmani will be the next big transfer and Daley Blind is impressive as center back. Vermeer is my only worry.

PSV underwhelmed. They have an ok squad, but Rutten might be simply too light for the job. But hey, I don’t like PSV. I can’t even get myself interested.

Twente and AZ will be outsiders. Twente relies heavily on Ruiz and if he lacks form or is suspended , Twente simply isn’t as good. Chadli needs to prove it still and without Theo Janssen, Twente lacks the venom and pure class in midfield. But….Twente has Co Adriaanse! AZ is an interesting outsider.

For me, Ajax will win the title again and Frank might well build a great team for CL success. Maybe not a win, but at least some impressive football. Feyenoord will end up in the top 6 and Twente might have the legs to become number 2.

I focus my hope in Spain on Malaga and Valencia and the likes. Real Madrid has become the Dark Side for me. Mourinho and C Ronaldo together are too much to handle. While Barca has become otherwordly. The new dude on the right ( Alexis) is another Messi while Cesc in midfield turns the Bleugranas into the Harlem Globe Trotters of Football!

Exciting times ahead!

Jose kicks Cesc in the head

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By Abhirup | August 23rd, 2011 at 8:11 am

Lol..talking about size of talent pool of countries, my CITY Kolkata,which happens to be the capital of West Bengal (one of the 28 states in India) alone boasts a population of nearly 11 million..The whole of West Bengal has more than 90 million people and the country has nearly 1.2 billion citizens…Yet,we have never qualified for a World cup..Its all about the infrastructure,which nations like China and India so desperately lack!!
And yes,there are plenty of talents scattered across the subcontinent..We just need to focus on football and develop a healthy infrastructure to compete at the world stage. Alas,the monopoly of cricket has ruined this nation.

By Alex | August 23rd, 2011 at 8:14 am

Abhirup, no offence, but I think any nation with a population over a billion should on ethic and moral grounds seriously consider trying to limit childbirth and improve standard of living for the inhabitants it already has.. lol, yes that means, less kids..
But indeed, sports popularity and infrastructure, together with population tends to decide where a country stands in a sport.

Posted from Netherlands

By Alex | August 23rd, 2011 at 9:25 am

india getting into football.. is my nightmare, lol.

Posted from Netherlands

By Eduardo | August 23rd, 2011 at 9:26 am

Hi Alex, I get your point, my apologies if I misunderstand you.

It´s a shame when Netherlands have a wonderful team, plenty of top class players even on the bench (like 1998) and these generations lost their opportunities.

My point is, Netherlands used to have great teams, but the players ambitions not used to be according of the potency of the team.

That’s the first think need to be changed: believe in the potency and try to win the WC, and that’s what BvM changed.

Maybe in 2014 we will not have a great team, plenty of top class players, but this 2010 team wasn´t too good either (like the 1998) and they reach the finals!

Not always the bets team win the WC, (the Germans are expert winning without the best team) !! I just hope to win the WC because lost 3 finals is so painful and unfair!!

By Eduardo | August 23rd, 2011 at 10:39 am

about BvM and national team

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/947437/ernst-bouwes:-the-changing-of-the-guard?cc=3888

By OranjeFan | August 23rd, 2011 at 11:12 am

Agree –

“I tend to concentrate on the way we’re playing and my players’ mindset – that’s all that interests me. The opponent that this team really needs to fear is itself. ”

Quote from Bert van Marwijk

After EURO 2012 – I hope Bert changes his minds and stays on a coach of Oranje – he really knows how to keep a “Dutchman” focused.!!!

By Eduardo | August 23rd, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Anybody know Vitesse Arhem team?? They are good? i have the feeling they have good young players…. is that true?

And what do you think about Rodnay Sneijder loan to Utrech and Castillon to RKC? i think Ajax is doing well to give experience to this young players in loan contratc. I hope this player can become in the next Ajaxs star!

By Finnster01 | August 23rd, 2011 at 12:45 pm

@abhirup: That is not entirely 100% correct my friend. India actually qualified for the World Cup in 1950 but was banned from entering because they insisted on not wearing football boots and play barefoot.

True story. Just google it up

By Srinjoy | August 23rd, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Van Marwijk: We’ve learned how to win

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1496783.html

Posted from Bosnia And Herzegovina

By Srinjoy | August 23rd, 2011 at 12:53 pm

actually the fact is that they couldn’t afford shoes!

Posted from Bosnia And Herzegovina

By Abhirup | August 23rd, 2011 at 1:05 pm

@Finn: I know that story mate…Its my nation after all

By Tiju | August 23rd, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Amen to Abhirup.
Finn its true we got a chance and that denial was pretty costly for our country.The fact is even in cricket they dont select the clever players.they look that whether the guy has idiotic pace.Although this game cricket doesnt requires brain and any fool can play it.The land is land of mediocre peoples.When the cricket team got some half clever players they won the WC.i mean Dhoni,Virat etc.

Posted from United Arab Emirates

By Srinjoy | August 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Just been emailed an apology from premierleague.com that our league is still been officially updated but these are the rankings after 2 matchdays. Now we can truly see how much importance we should give to each blogger according to their actual knowledge on football! Gutted to find myself 5th. (In case of a tie of point the game ranks the team with the more uncommon players selected as higher!)

1) EricOranje 101
2) IanWilkie 101
3) SteveM 99
4) JulianTako 99
5) SrinjoyvonRokkjaer 96
6) MihranMarkosyan 96
7) MarkGeschwind 93
PetervanderLoo 91
9) OranjeAussie 81
10) Primoscientists 79
11) PaulBartels 78
12) BartvanLeewuen 76
13) RamiEstephan 75
14) JadOranje 72
15) AhmedMazlom 65
16) Ajacied_23 58
17) JanRoskott 50
18) DaveHermans 47

Jan , Jad , Rami , Bart , primoscientists , oranjeaussie

Eric

Posted from Bosnia And Herzegovina

By Paul | August 23rd, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Srinjoy:

haha i appreciate your enthusiasm with the fantasy league, i love fantasy leagues…but this league has more to do with managing skills than football knowledge…fitting the best players into a budget is tough to do and while it does require skill, has little to do with football knowledge.

From the middle of the pack (#11).

By Srinjoy | August 23rd, 2011 at 4:55 pm

Haha spot on paul..actually it takes extreme knowledge to build a squad with a limited budget because you need to know 20-25 players from each club by heart and you shud have seen each play atleast twice or thrice..so that you can fit in cheaper less known players that you secreatly know are quality and will perform when the stakes are high!

Posted from Bosnia And Herzegovina

By Finnster01 | August 23rd, 2011 at 6:10 pm

@Srinjoy: And I thought just like in the real world you just need more money than anyone else…

By Paul | August 23rd, 2011 at 8:18 pm

Srinjoy:

I see what you are saying…but some people may have great knowledge yet limited patience for analyzing the proper players for a fantasy team…i for one, even though i dont have a great deal of knowledge, needed to cut 10 million at one point and made some pretty rash decisions just to get it over with…in other news, earthquake in new york, and hurricane on the way AND robben and robin are both healthy…wtf is going on

By hien | August 23rd, 2011 at 8:32 pm

I read the espn article. It has a very interesting ending which implies that Mourinho indirectly helped other countries but Spain for the Euro 2012. You discuss about football and population but there are many other factors as well, how good are the leagues/clubs, players development and how popular is the sport and so on. Passion is not enough and big population is not enough. Population is just one factor. I recalled that no team ever repeat Euro champions and the last team to repeat winning WC is the Brazil of 58 and 62. Losing 3 finals hurts a lot and like some people here, I’d like to see Netherlands win the WC once in my life time.

Posted from United States

By Carlos | August 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 pm

Good to see the fantasy league and I am very interested to see how everyone goes so do post the table every week after the games – Good Luck to all

Posted from Singapore

By Sonneveld | August 24th, 2011 at 12:33 am

Hey guys I currently sit tied for first. So if you have any questions about football I’m sure i have the answer

By Mihran | August 24th, 2011 at 4:18 am

It’s now official – Oranje tops FIFA rankings. Not a big thing, but a pleasant thing for sure

By Jad | August 24th, 2011 at 4:19 am

….and its official Oranje are fifa number 1

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html

Posted from Greece

By Jad | August 24th, 2011 at 4:28 am

haha guys am just completing the fantasy table,am not premiere league follower,but will be as you made me getting enthusiastic to climb the ladder.

Posted from Greece

By Deacon | August 28th, 2011 at 10:21 am

Just what the dtoocr ordered, thankity you!

Posted from Hong Kong

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