Almost a month to go and we're starting to leave the club competitions behind us. You will have seen the squad selection by now? I don't think too many surprises.…
As a national team coach, you want to be able to mould your best team, tactics, approach and squad by now, some 3 months before the tournament. The two friendlies,…
Daley Blind was pushed out of the Ajax squad last season and when he failed to get playing time at Bayern Munich, people expected his career to fizzle out. But…
Well, we made it. We qualified. But the performance quality - or lack thereof - doesn't instil a lot of confidence in me. I don't think I have seen one…
It's a bit cynical maybe to speak of a bright future after a loss in the Euro qualifications, but with Koeman's 3-4-3 and the talents cherished by AZ, Feyenoord, PSV…
For decades, ever since Oranje and Cruyff wooed the world with their break through Total Football ( even if it was Happel at Feyenoord who initiated it), Ajax has been…
This is not a sentence I expected to write. Ever. Memphis has been super important for the Dutch NT, ever since his appearance at the World Cup in 2014. Under…
In typical Dutch form, people will immediately say: "Who is to blame?". The answer is not very straightforward. Lets first look at the problem. Ajax was having a decent run…
Feyenoord won it's 16th title, only 6 years after a complete different team (under Van Bronckhorst) won it. And they won it about 19 years later after the trophy in…
The problem of Liverpool is that Salah is no longer a top player. But Liverpool is so used to Salah's…