As we qualified for the World Cup, it might be nice to do a first little summary.
We will be heading to the WC2026 as outsiders, I think. Like Norway, Japan, US, Belgium and Germany.
The real favorites will Brazil, Argentina, Spain, England, France and Portugal, I believe.
The mix of qualities is present and with youngsters like Meerdink, Emegha and Valente in the picture, the future does seem bright.
We do need to strengthen at certain aspects, I feel.
Leadership and tactical nous
I believe we lack the leadership we have seen in the past in the Dutch teams. We all know how Cruyff and Van Hanegem ruled the roost in the 70s, with Ruud Krol as the leader later in the decade. We remember Jan Wouters and Ruud Gullit in the 80s and Frank de Boer and later on Wesley Sneijder and Mark van Bommel as vocal warriors in the teams.
These were players who had the personalities and qualities to lead, but definitely also the football intelligence to see what needed changing.
Today’s squad seems to be lacking in this department. You’d expect it from Virgil but I have seen too many mistakes (positioning) by him to believe he “reads” the game well. I do think Ake and Timber have more of that, but don’t have the extraverted personalities to bark orders. Frenkie will have the insights too, but also seems to friendly and placid to take charge.
Reijnders and Gravenberch still play and look as if they’re happily on a school outing and otherwise, I can’t see any player with the right mentality and quality. Noa Lang probably thinks he is the man, but I don’t think he is. Taylor of Ajax might have all the personality, but at the moment he simply can’t get into the squad.
Work to be done here. Whenever we play like we did versus Poland ( initial tactics wrong, distances too large, pace of passing too slow, etc ) someone will need to correct the team. Koeman is not really able to do it, and none of the players seem to be able either.
Ronald Koeman
This blog has seen many posts of Koeman critics and I am one of them. He doesn’t seem to inspire greatness, he often starts with the wrong set up, only to have to adapt during the break and at times comes up with questionable line ups and selections. Frimpong AND Dumfries on the right? Mickey Van de Ven as LB over Hartman or Maatsen? Malen as wide right winger?
I am also not convinced of Koeman’s tactical smarts, particularly not if he appears to be surprised by Poland’s 3-4-3 and needs De Ligt’s insights AFTER the match to make sense of it, as Koeman was not able to fix the problem during the game.
Koeman doesn’t seem to care much about a flimsy performance. With him, results are everything and he quickly pointed out that Germany needed their last match to qualify and Portugal, Belgium and Italy are also doing it the hard way. In other words: I didn’t do too badly.
Consistency
The real question remains: which Oranje is Koeman’s Oranje? The team that did so well over two matches versus Spain or the team that struggled versus Poland and Lithuania? The difference is so big, that is it defies logic. Koeman recognises the issue and is working hard to get a firm starting eleven together which can spend time gelling together. Verbruggen, Dumfries, Van Dijk, De Jong, Gakpo and Memphis are his key players.
There will not be too many surprises, although it seems there might be three juniors who could make it into the mix for the World Cup: Luciano Valente, Emmanuel Emegha and Kees Smit.
Loyalty
One of the key aspects of Koeman’s management is loyalty. He is known to place his trust in a number of key players, expecting and hoping for them to repay this. Not many coaches would have stuck to Memphis for instance, or give Man City sub Nathan Ake a spot in the current group.
Of both players he mentioned their off pitch personality and leadership. Steven Bergwijn will have a different opinion about loyalty of course, and I do think Koeman made an error with the negative comments about Bergwijn’s move.
The question Koeman is dealing with as well is, which players will keep fresh during a 6 week program in the Americas? It’s not just football skills that matter, but character as well. Ian Maatsen and Joey Veerman sunk in the hierarchy and I don’t think this can be seen separate from their personalities and ego. Koeman was there, in 1990, when a rotten vibe in the group resulted in an abysmal turn at the World Cup.
Legacy
Koeman qualified twice for a Euros ( 2021 and 2024) and now for the World Cup. He got us in a Nations League finals as well but despite these achievements, it’s the two Spain games that really stand out as memorable. While the disappointing games are in the majority. We all remember Austria, France, Hungary, Germany, Poland and Lithuania.
There will be a new generation of players knocking on the door ( Van Hecke, Bogarde, Frimpong, Emegha, Valente, Steijn, Smit, Meerdink, Baas, Van Bommel) and it seems likely that a younger coach will be needed to usher in that future.
For him, but also for Van Dijk, Memphis and Frenkie, the upcoming World Cup results will determine if we will speak about them like we still do about Krol, Van Basten, Sneijder and Neeskens.
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No leadership, a poor coach have been a recurring complaints of the current team. Guessed the buck starts and stops at the coach I feel. I don’t see how these will change or improve as long as Koeman is in-charge. As the saying goes, a leopard will never change its spots.
For us fans, for all the grouses and complaints, we can only hope to be proven wrong and the team got the luck to advance as far as possible in the tournament.
Yep, but luckily there have been teams who were able to win trophies despite their coach. It just needs the players to step up and show balls and get the results.
Bruhhhhhhhhhhhh….Koeman will play Depay as goal keeper..inorder to step up ,at least koeman should start with right players on right spot according to their stregth..thats basic..what you expect from clown who starts van den the center back as LB..Timber the right back as RCB??Then simons who is never a right winger play as right winger..Continuously selecting benched players in their clubs??..
Do something and then expect luck or players to step in/UP…
I follow EPL at possible every game.Van dijk has become complacent,nonchalant and running away from tackles and blames team mates …Robin Roefs out smarts Verbruggen,Van De ven out class Virgil as LCB,Timber is the best RB in EPL,De ligt is the best RCB in EPL….Brobbey is fighting like warrior at Sunderland,Geetruida is doing excellent as LCB with sunderland..
We need Givairo read,kees smit to be tested in march with NT.Also i hope hato gets a loan and move to a club where he can be no 1 choice..Hato will come up…
As much as like Maatsen and frimpong..they are fragile as defenders..koeman needs a three man system to use them….Give this team to van gaal HE WILL MURDER arejtina,spain,belgium,England and portugall…Not sure about france and brazil,both those teams has mercurial attackers who can do miracle…insane talents they have in attack,,
I want to see Bosz take over from Koeman. He is the type of coach you want for this young generation.
I don’t wanna repeat again and again regarding koeman and his flaws. The problems lys with KNVB also . When they appointed him again after he abandoned the ship and returned after being kicked out at Barcelona. It showed the Dutch hierarchy are bunch of ball suckers as well turning a blind eye on his failures. And giving him the benefit of doubt as if he can prove otherwise. I mean this is the problem with them. They appointed an incompetent danny Blind , FDB , yes koeman had a good outings in the nations league but he shud have never be appointed again . With the current Dutch contingent and the qualifiers a descent coach also would have got the team qualified.
When you look at the team’s record for the past 4 years, it is very alarming. Emmanual put it on the blog a few days ago. Now the Netherlands can only beat teams that are at the very bottom of the FIFA ranking. The junior team just lost 3/1 against Israel. Are you kidding me? We have not have an attractive team since 2014. My point is the issue is far beyond R Koeman. I am a big Dutch fan but I’m not Dutch. I think the Dutch like football but they don’t have the same passion as Brazilians or Argentinians. I have been to a Boca vs River Plate game. I saw what it’s like. If that passion was there for the national team, I guarantee you, Koeman would have been sacked. The Dutch Football Federation cares very little. You can see that based on decisions being made. Cronyism is the name of the game inside the Dutch Football Federation. They kept on recycling the same coaches over and over. And all of these coaches, instead of making decision that would benefit the collective, they always prioritized their ego. For example, Daly Bling had no business in the last WC, he even cost us the game against Argentina but we he started every game because of Van Gall’s ego. That right back from AS Roma is a far more better player than Dumfries but was left out. And now again, we are stocked with Koeman who has no idea what he is doing. What happen to all the football experts you always talking about? What are they saying? What is the press saying about the stage of Dutch football? Look what Spain has done? We taught the Spanish how to play and now they are better at it. They’ve won the WC. They might win this one next year. Their youth academies are the best. The Dutch ain’t doing anything reverse this. I think it is time to at least try a foreign coach. I guarantee you after Koeman, they just going to pick another friend. lol
Jurgen Klopp could be a great coach for the Netherlands. It’s time for a big change.
There is much to unpack in this message. We struggle against smaller nations, teams that park the bus. This has been a problem for Van Gaal, for Slot at Liverpool and even for Bosz at PSV. And now Koeman is lamenting this as well.
We lack creativity. We could have used a good and fit Ihattaren. Now Valente might be that player. Yes, Feyenoord lost versus Celtic but the Feyenoord goal came from that splicing pass from Valente.
Reijnders is a good player, but a runner. Timber, same. Gravenberch is a good player on the ball but his creativity in passing is limited. We only have Schouten and Frenkie, who are both a “6”. With Valente we have a more forward playing playmaker (an 8) and with that type of player we can take on the compact low blocks.
Against Spain for the Nations League, we did play well and only lost on pens. This is the level we need to get to and I think at the World Cup, provided we get through the first group, we can hopefully bring more versus teams that want to attack as well. This allows for more space.
We lack some quality, that is not Koeman’s fault. We have no real strikers in the same category as Kluivert, Van Nistelrooy or Huntelaar (let alone Van Basten). We used to have multiple ones elbowing each other out of the way: Van Hooydonk, Hasselbaink, Makaay, Bosman, Kieft, Houtman, Gillhaus and the list goes on.
Dallinga is still a good fox in the box and I do rate Emegha. But it’s not (yet) world class.
We lack a good right winger, although Malen has found form at Villa (and in Oranje).
I do agree with the lack of gritta and passion. It’s a given. We can write long stories about this, including social economic factors and cultural factors, but fact is: we are complacent. Spoiled.
Lastly, the KNVB and coaching choices: I totally agree. I don’t see why it always has to be an ex player who played at a big tournament.
Slot never played for Oranje. Alex Pastoor never played for Oranje. Danny Buijs never played for Oranje. Dick Lukkien never played for Oranje, but they’re top coaches.
I am not a Koeman nor KNVB fan so I am with you on this.
I don’t agree with the returning criticism on Daley Blind. He might be Blind, but you are blind.
Sorry Jan there nothing to unpack..
We dont struggle against small teams any more at least since last 30 years ,We struggle and loose against big teams..We hammer small teams like malta,etc and gets draw against sweden or poland..but mostly we beat them…We shi@@#t against big teams..since when beat a top team…
Our coaches are becoming laughing stocks in europe,they are so stubborn to change ,Eric ten haag made a record by getting sacked from leverkusen…We only need few games to understand stupidity…
Daley blind was so liberal to free run molina,he cost us left wing attack..in 2022..but however i do garee that he was excellent from 2014 to 2018,,
If Dennis bergkamp can retrie from NT at age of 30 why can’t these average clowns who is no where near bergkamp cannot retire from NT..for the sake of the team???
We have some world beater players at midfield and defense ..with average forward line up…with a good coach like van gaal that’s enough to beat any top team hence winning WC..
We have right winger ,frimpong just like Roben he tore apart any defense in the world..our chance of winning against a top team depends on his fitness..We have right winger who terrorise Italian defense at seri A ,his name is addai,he is banging goals and starter for FC como and he is starter..We are doomed with KNVB and clown coach who shuts down any kind of adaptability and innovation..
imagine you have clown coach who plays the best LCB in EPL as LB,who plays best RB in EPL as RCB,Benches best RB timber for dumfries…Plays repeatedly simons as right winger,who is a proven failure at right wing..plays reinders as no 10…What you expect from this clown??
I also think you are talking about Rick karsdorp when he was at Roma. There has been situations where they don’t want so call “toxic players” but if you look at what transpires or the criteria to be a toxic player. It’s just obnoxious . As I recall in karsdorp’s case he was branded a toxic player because he spoke up against Danny blind in dressing room for not getting opportunities and with Sonny in there, the word reached fathers hears and from there on he was labeled toxic. Which again points at the transparency aspect of the coaches and overlooking of players and usually at that time Ajax RBs were prioritized more as dumfries back up or make shift RBs and when dumfries was injured. Karsdorp was also injured a lot later on and where koeman took over he did get few games but then dumfries had lay his stakes in the team and you know what that means especially when it comes to rotation. But for sure if karsdorp would have been called up regularly he would have given a good competition to dumfries.
Arnie Slot is begging for sacking,Dutch mangers are becoming laughing stocks of international community,Why they are hell bent on destruction of themselves..Too much ego??or a cultural thing?Terrible coaches…Arnie is not dropping salah and gakpo..plays isak instead of inform ektike..Playing scboslai as right back..Never use Joe gomez,chiesa ,Ngumoha now putting writz on bench..Gravenberch and Malsiter is struggling to seal the defensive gaps and holes at mid..konate in bad form..
These posts tell me you don’t really get what coaching is about.
Arne has 60+ matches to manage and can’t just play Ektike constantly. He will get injured at some point and ISak won’t be fit to play due to your coaching methods. Arne needs to manage their fitness and rhythm.
Arne has dropped Salah for the West Ham game, in case you were sleeping.
Gomez was not fit. Chiesa and Rio are not right backs. Szoboslai can move into midfield as an inverted back.
So Konate is in bad form and thus Arne needs to be sacked??
I don’t think you ever reached this low level with your comments :-).
I think Slot will be sacked only IF the players have lost it with him and/or IF he has collisions with management/owners.
All the defeats Liverpool endured were tight games, where details determined the end result. The Man U and the Chelsea defeats could easily have gone the opposite way. The PSV game, Liverpool was on top in the first half but PSV scored the early goal and Liverpool missed too many chances (how is this Slot’s fault??). Against Galatasaray they conceded a ridiculous penalty.
The only match they were truly beaten was the Man City match.
Slot has great analyses and assessments of what happened why and how to deal with it.
One aspect that one cannot underestimate is the passing of Diogo Jota and the impact this has. Still. Andy Robertson mentioned it after qualifying for the WC with Scotland.
Every home game, in the 20st minute, the fans applaud. From that moment forward, the team is clearly losing spirit and intensity.
Mo Salah was very close to Jota and it’s not a surprise his game is suffering.
Remember Bhoularouz and him losing his child during the Euros in 2008? Remember how we played the next game?
If people are interested, I will post on this particular topic. Now go into a corner Emmanual and be ashamed of yourself 😉
These posts tell me you don’t really get what coaching is about.
Ans-Here we go again..ha ha pathetic statement..i do not have to know about coaching in depth to call a spade is spade..Arnie is still on verge of sack by football pundits of liverpool…Eric ten haag is sacked just after 2 games..what does it tells you??..Ten haag was sacked deservedly,people make fun of him ..
Arne has 60+ matches to manage and can’t just play Ektike constantly. He will get injured at some point and ISak won’t be fit to play due to your coaching methods. Arne needs to manage their fitness and rhythm.
Ans:-Arnie hardly rotated in last season,which was good in fact though,He plays salah and gakpo even after seeing them sitting in chair on the feild..i cannot count how many games he lost this season..
Arne has dropped Salah for the West Ham game, in case you were sleeping.
Ans;-why dont you check the timing of the comment before showing such nonsense..Arnie was on gupoint to droop salah and they won..
Gomez was not fit. Chiesa and Rio are not right backs. Szoboslai can move into midfield as an inverted back.
Ans_Gomez was fit for many games,still not used, also who said cheisa and Ngumoha are right backs and they should be used??why are coming with haywire arguments like this which i never said..??
So Konate is in bad form and thus Arne needs to be sacked??
Ans- konate is in bad form so he needs dropping ,or its arnie to find a solution,which he failed.
I don’t think you ever reached this low level with your comments :-).
Ans;-Never mind this comment
I think Slot will be sacked only IF the players have lost it with him and/or IF he has collisions with management/owners.
Ans:- no you are wrong he will be sacked if things does not improve and keep loosing..
All the defeats Liverpool endured were tight games, where details determined the end result. The Man U and the Chelsea defeats could easily have gone the opposite way. The PSV game, Liverpool was on top in the first half but PSV scored the early goal and Liverpool missed too many chances (how is this Slot’s fault??). Against Galatasaray they conceded a ridiculous penalty.
Ans—Please its an excuse.please dont come up with these kind of explanation..
The only match they were truly beaten was the Man City match.
Ans–No many games,man city just outclassed them in all aspects..
Slot has great analyses and assessments of what happened why and how to deal with it.
Ans–Yes he has decent analysis,but not that great,,or lese he would have benched Salah for chiesa ,gakpo for writz and would have started Gomez at center or right back..
One aspect that one cannot underestimate is the passing of Diogo Jota and the impact this has. Still. Andy Robertson mentioned it after qualifying for the WC with Scotland.
Ans–i dont understand that may be it affected robertson,its hard for me to imagine Robertson was thinking about Jota when liverpool is trailing by 2-0
Every home game, in the 20st minute, the fans applaud. From that moment forward, the team is clearly losing spirit and intensity.
Ans-they spent record amount,players getting millions,so thats a lame excuse
Mo Salah was very close to Jota and it’s not a surprise his game is suffering.
Ans:- Salah is so selfish prick,he might be close with Jota,Sadio mane is a gem who has already had issue with selfish salah..if not salah at least arnie would have won few more matches..
Remember Bhoularouz and him losing his child during the Euros in 2008? Remember how we played the next game?
Ans-Bhoulahruz incident was right in the middle of knockout game preparation,so thats not the case with Liverpool and Jota..
If people are interested, I will post on this particular topic. Now go into a corner Emmanual and be ashamed of yourself 😉
Ans—Yet again ,if arnie shows adaptability and flexible to change he will survive..or lese he will be sacked..Eric is already sitting at home..FDB had no wins at EPL..or under FDB his team scored??
If I have to grade Koeman overall, I would give him a C-, and that’s being very generous. And it’s mostly based in comparison to the disasters like Blind and De Boer. He’s still in charge for the next World Cup, so his final report card on his legacy will be based on that.
And on the topic of Dutch coaches lately, it is sad to see Slot collapsing at Liverpool. How do you go from winning the league, getting an unprecedented €500M transfer backing from your club owners, and flopping like that. It seems like he is totally powerless to do anything at the moment. I’m not a Liverpool fan, but a neutral Premier League viewer.
Ten Haag got fired after 3 games at Leverkusen. De Boer had decent opportunities at Inter Milan and Crystal Palace but got sacked within a few months at both. There has to be something going on that’s the common denominator with these guys.
Overall, what I see as the fundamental and key fatal flaw in the Dutch mentality and philosophy is this obsessed focus on playing attacking football, and lack of focus on defense. I don’t care who disagrees with me on this point. It is something I am strongly convinced of ever since I started watching the team since the 1990 World Cup. I think this affects players, coaches, the clubs, the academies, and even the Dutch public/fan base itself. Again please understand, I’m just saying this is one of the key issues. I’m still a fan of Dutch football, I love Dutch football, I am optimistic of its future, and I want the team to succeed.
Slot has got worse this season and I am shocked. In previous season, he adapted. Last season, he picked players based on form (Gakpo did not start at the beginning but he got into the starting XI by playing well). This season, he started doing the loyalty thing that every Dutch national team coach has done. Salah did not play well, stick with him. Gakpo did not score goals, play him more. Chiesa assisted, straight to the bench. The reason for 500m transfer is to give more options, what’s the point of sticking with the same XI?
More and more dutch coaches becoming dumb and they are becoming serial loosers…insanity is that doing the same thing and expecting different outcome..Slot has done this…
Gakpo and salah are really a problem.But so does Van dijk and Konate.so does Mcalister and Gravenberch..also full backs kerkez cannot defend properly,Frimpong is not good at defending…his bias towards Ngumoha and chiesa …this completes the tragedy..He will be rightfully sacked,
at least he should have tried
—–Eketike———————-Isaak———-
—————-Writz—————————–
kerkez—-Schboslai–Gravenberch—-Frimpong
———-Van dijk—-Konate—–gomez——————-
———————–Alisson———————————–
or
Ngumoha—————Eketike————Cheisa—
——————–writz—————————————-
———Schbolslai——-End0————————
kerkez——-Van dijk—Gomez—Bradley
——————–Alisson——————————-
This is valid point…Van de ven outclasses Van dijk in week in week out…De ligt is the best CB in EPL.Timber is the best RB in the world…
Lang is slowly getiing times st napoli and doing well…
Lang————–Gakpo————-Frimpong
—————–kees smit———————–
——Reinders———–Frenkie———————
Hartmann–Van de ven–De ligt—Timber
—————Robin roefs—————————
they are most inform balanced players we have right now
on bench
These posts tell me you don’t really get what coaching is about.
Ans-Here we go again..ha ha pathetic statement..i do not have to know about coaching in depth to call a spade is spade..Arnie is still on verge of sack by football pundits of liverpool…Eric ten haag is sacked just after 2 games..what does it tells you??..Ten haag was sacked deservedly,people make fun of him ..
Arne has 60+ matches to manage and can’t just play Ektike constantly. He will get injured at some point and ISak won’t be fit to play due to your coaching methods. Arne needs to manage their fitness and rhythm.
Ans:-Arnie hardly rotated in last season,which was good in fact though,He plays salah and gakpo even after seeing them sitting in chair on the feild..i cannot count how many games he lost this season..
Arne has dropped Salah for the West Ham game, in case you were sleeping.
Ans;-why dont you check the timing of the comment before showing such nonsense..Arnie was on gunpoint to droop salah and they won..
Gomez was not fit. Chiesa and Rio are not right backs. Szoboslai can move into midfield as an inverted back.
Ans_Gomez was fit for many games,still not used, also who said cheisa and Ngumoha are right backs and they should be used??why are coming with haywire arguments like this which i never said..??
So Konate is in bad form and thus Arne needs to be sacked??
Ans- konate is in bad form so he needs dropping ,or its arnie to find a solution,which he failed.
I don’t think you ever reached this low level with your comments :-).
Ans;-Never mind this comment
I think Slot will be sacked only IF the players have lost it with him and/or IF he has collisions with management/owners.
Ans:- No you are wrong he will be sacked if things does not improve and keep loosing..
All the defeats Liverpool endured were tight games, where details determined the end result. The Man U and the Chelsea defeats could easily have gone the opposite way. The PSV game, Liverpool was on top in the first half but PSV scored the early goal and Liverpool missed too many chances (how is this Slot’s fault??). Against Galatasaray they conceded a ridiculous penalty.
Ans—Please its an excuse.please don’t come up with these kind of explanation..
The only match they were truly beaten was the Man City match.
Ans–No many games,man city just outclassed them in all aspects..
Slot has great analyses and assessments of what happened why and how to deal with it.
Ans–Yes he has decent analysis,but not that great,,or lese he would have benched Salah for chiesa ,gakpo for writz and would have started Gomez at center or right back..
One aspect that one cannot underestimate is the passing of Diogo Jota and the impact this has. Still. Andy Robertson mentioned it after qualifying for the WC with Scotland.
Ans–i dont understand that may be it affected robertson,its hard for me to imagine Robertson was thinking about Jota when liverpool is trailing by 2-0
Every home game, in the 20st minute, the fans applaud. From that moment forward, the team is clearly losing spirit and intensity.
Ans-they spent record amount,players getting millions,so thats a lame excuse
Mo Salah was very close to Jota and it’s not a surprise his game is suffering.
Ans:- Salah is so selfish ,he might be close with Jota,Sadio mane is a gem who has already had issue with selfish salah..if not salah at least Arnie would have won few more matches..
Remember Bhoularouz and him losing his child during the Euros in 2008? Remember how we played the next game?
Ans-Bhoulahruz incident was right in the middle of knockout game preparation,so thats not the case with Liverpool and Jota..
If people are interested, I will post on this particular topic. Now go into a corner Emmanual and be ashamed of yourself 😉
Ans—Yet again ,if arnie shows adaptability and flexible to change he will survive..or lese he will be sacked..Eric is already sitting at home..FDB had no wins at EPL..or under FDB his team scored??
I’m sorry man, this is my last response to you. I am done with this.
Where to start.
Erik was sacked after two games. That tells you that it’s not just results. Something else was going on. A mismatch of personalities? Or did the club overpromise? Was Erik free to handle matters as initially agreed upon?
We don’t know. You don’t know. You weren’t there. So using Erik’s sacking as a model for Arne Slot is just plain ridiculous.
Saying “everybody makes fun of Erik” says more about these people. How would you react if you get sacked and people start making fun of you? I also despise the way Heitinga was treated by the media. It’s ridiculous.
I mentioned Rio and Chiesa as right back because you didn’t like Szoboslai being used in that role. So who else needed to do it? If both your RB’s are injured? You seem to think other players should play there?? Or were you implying they play without a RB?
Your comments on Salah are outright ridiculous. There has never been a more prolific right winger in the EPL and you feel you can insult him for having a bad spell.
I’m sorry man, I actually don’t like you, your views and your comments here. You are insufferable, offensive and a total football nitwit.
I’m sorry man, this is my last response to you. I am done with this.
Ans:-I am sorry man i am done with this too,
Where to start.
Erik was sacked after two games. That tells you that it’s not just results. Something else was going on. A mismatch of personalities? Or did the club overpromise? Was Erik free to handle matters as initially agreed upon?
We don’t know. You don’t know. You weren’t there. So using Erik’s sacking as a model for Arne Slot is just plain ridiculous.
Ans-Erik had all the preseason and two games ,These days are every moment of coach is watched analysed,May he had some issue with management.So does every other manager..Logical answer is that they dont want to get destroyed like united..only way is that get him sacked before further damage..
Saying “everybody makes fun of Erik” says more about these people. How would you react if you get sacked and people start making fun of you? I also despise the way Heitinga was treated by the media. It’s ridiculous.
Ans;- if i am stubborn and makes stupidity and repeatedly making same mistakes again an expecting different result will force people to make fun of me..thats how the world is..i have no controll over it ,unless i listen and make adjustments or adapt..
I mentioned Rio and Chiesa as right back because you didn’t like Szoboslai being used in that role. So who else needed to do it? If both your RB’s are injured? You seem to think other players should play there?? Or were you implying they play without a RB?
Ans-Szoboslai is an exceptional player he will be good even as goal keeper,but that might not be enough for a liverpool right back..Never in my wild dream i will think of extra potent attackers like Ngumoha and chiesa as right backs..they are specialists wingers/forwards..i would never do that stupidity..They had bradley and Joe gomez in absense of frimpong..Arnie used bradley at times,He was good ,he had a tremendous game vs Mbhappe..Arnie is bigproblem was playing gakpo and Salah who both were not pressing at all..Mc alister was injured ,he never used Endo..thats where Arnie lost..
Your comments on Salah are outright ridiculous. There has never been a more prolific right winger in the EPL and you feel you can insult him for having a bad spell.
Ans–Sadio mane almost beat the shit out of salah ,,why dont you check history…Salah is a prolific selfish player.i dont blame him for lack of goals..i blame him for lack of work/pressing..you cannot score goals every game..ditto goes with Gakpo..but gakpo slowly started pressing,last game he was doing it..Good for him.liverpool and arnie..
I’m sorry man, I actually don’t like you, your views and your comments here. You are insufferable, offensive and a total football nitwit.
Ans:- Thank you for openly saying this,i we will always on opposite ends,i will be with sadio mane and you will be with salah..i also do n’t like you ,your views are always biased and one sided..YES telling the truth as it is can make you insufferable in this modern world,i will be always offensive towards who i feel offensive towards me…you are total football knuckle head.
No leadership, a poor coach have been a recurring complaints of the current team. Guessed the buck starts and stops at the coach I feel. I don’t see how these will change or improve as long as Koeman is in-charge. As the saying goes, a leopard will never change its spots.
For us fans, for all the grouses and complaints, we can only hope to be proven wrong and the team got the luck to advance as far as possible in the tournament.
Yep, but luckily there have been teams who were able to win trophies despite their coach. It just needs the players to step up and show balls and get the results.
Bruhhhhhhhhhhhh….Koeman will play Depay as goal keeper..inorder to step up ,at least koeman should start with right players on right spot according to their stregth..thats basic..what you expect from clown who starts van den the center back as LB..Timber the right back as RCB??Then simons who is never a right winger play as right winger..Continuously selecting benched players in their clubs??..
Do something and then expect luck or players to step in/UP…
I follow EPL at possible every game.Van dijk has become complacent,nonchalant and running away from tackles and blames team mates …Robin Roefs out smarts Verbruggen,Van De ven out class Virgil as LCB,Timber is the best RB in EPL,De ligt is the best RCB in EPL….Brobbey is fighting like warrior at Sunderland,Geetruida is doing excellent as LCB with sunderland..
We need Givairo read,kees smit to be tested in march with NT.Also i hope hato gets a loan and move to a club where he can be no 1 choice..Hato will come up…
As much as like Maatsen and frimpong..they are fragile as defenders..koeman needs a three man system to use them….Give this team to van gaal HE WILL MURDER arejtina,spain,belgium,England and portugall…Not sure about france and brazil,both those teams has mercurial attackers who can do miracle…insane talents they have in attack,,
with a 433 LVG would dazzle with following players
————-Gakpo————-Meerdink————————-
———————–Smit——————————-
Maatsen——Reinders——Frenkie———Frimpong
————Van de ven—-Virgil———-De ligt/Timber————–
————————-Roefs—————————————————
I want to see Bosz take over from Koeman. He is the type of coach you want for this young generation.
I don’t wanna repeat again and again regarding koeman and his flaws. The problems lys with KNVB also . When they appointed him again after he abandoned the ship and returned after being kicked out at Barcelona. It showed the Dutch hierarchy are bunch of ball suckers as well turning a blind eye on his failures. And giving him the benefit of doubt as if he can prove otherwise. I mean this is the problem with them. They appointed an incompetent danny Blind , FDB , yes koeman had a good outings in the nations league but he shud have never be appointed again . With the current Dutch contingent and the qualifiers a descent coach also would have got the team qualified.
@ Jan
When you look at the team’s record for the past 4 years, it is very alarming. Emmanual put it on the blog a few days ago. Now the Netherlands can only beat teams that are at the very bottom of the FIFA ranking. The junior team just lost 3/1 against Israel. Are you kidding me? We have not have an attractive team since 2014. My point is the issue is far beyond R Koeman. I am a big Dutch fan but I’m not Dutch. I think the Dutch like football but they don’t have the same passion as Brazilians or Argentinians. I have been to a Boca vs River Plate game. I saw what it’s like. If that passion was there for the national team, I guarantee you, Koeman would have been sacked. The Dutch Football Federation cares very little. You can see that based on decisions being made. Cronyism is the name of the game inside the Dutch Football Federation. They kept on recycling the same coaches over and over. And all of these coaches, instead of making decision that would benefit the collective, they always prioritized their ego. For example, Daly Bling had no business in the last WC, he even cost us the game against Argentina but we he started every game because of Van Gall’s ego. That right back from AS Roma is a far more better player than Dumfries but was left out. And now again, we are stocked with Koeman who has no idea what he is doing. What happen to all the football experts you always talking about? What are they saying? What is the press saying about the stage of Dutch football? Look what Spain has done? We taught the Spanish how to play and now they are better at it. They’ve won the WC. They might win this one next year. Their youth academies are the best. The Dutch ain’t doing anything reverse this. I think it is time to at least try a foreign coach. I guarantee you after Koeman, they just going to pick another friend. lol
Jurgen Klopp could be a great coach for the Netherlands. It’s time for a big change.
I must say you have said it more better than what I was trying to write above.
There is much to unpack in this message. We struggle against smaller nations, teams that park the bus. This has been a problem for Van Gaal, for Slot at Liverpool and even for Bosz at PSV. And now Koeman is lamenting this as well.
We lack creativity. We could have used a good and fit Ihattaren. Now Valente might be that player. Yes, Feyenoord lost versus Celtic but the Feyenoord goal came from that splicing pass from Valente.
Reijnders is a good player, but a runner. Timber, same. Gravenberch is a good player on the ball but his creativity in passing is limited. We only have Schouten and Frenkie, who are both a “6”. With Valente we have a more forward playing playmaker (an 8) and with that type of player we can take on the compact low blocks.
Against Spain for the Nations League, we did play well and only lost on pens. This is the level we need to get to and I think at the World Cup, provided we get through the first group, we can hopefully bring more versus teams that want to attack as well. This allows for more space.
We lack some quality, that is not Koeman’s fault. We have no real strikers in the same category as Kluivert, Van Nistelrooy or Huntelaar (let alone Van Basten). We used to have multiple ones elbowing each other out of the way: Van Hooydonk, Hasselbaink, Makaay, Bosman, Kieft, Houtman, Gillhaus and the list goes on.
Dallinga is still a good fox in the box and I do rate Emegha. But it’s not (yet) world class.
We lack a good right winger, although Malen has found form at Villa (and in Oranje).
I do agree with the lack of gritta and passion. It’s a given. We can write long stories about this, including social economic factors and cultural factors, but fact is: we are complacent. Spoiled.
Lastly, the KNVB and coaching choices: I totally agree. I don’t see why it always has to be an ex player who played at a big tournament.
Slot never played for Oranje. Alex Pastoor never played for Oranje. Danny Buijs never played for Oranje. Dick Lukkien never played for Oranje, but they’re top coaches.
I am not a Koeman nor KNVB fan so I am with you on this.
I don’t agree with the returning criticism on Daley Blind. He might be Blind, but you are blind.
Sorry Jan there nothing to unpack..
We dont struggle against small teams any more at least since last 30 years ,We struggle and loose against big teams..We hammer small teams like malta,etc and gets draw against sweden or poland..but mostly we beat them…We shi@@#t against big teams..since when beat a top team…
Our coaches are becoming laughing stocks in europe,they are so stubborn to change ,Eric ten haag made a record by getting sacked from leverkusen…We only need few games to understand stupidity…
Daley blind was so liberal to free run molina,he cost us left wing attack..in 2022..but however i do garee that he was excellent from 2014 to 2018,,
If Dennis bergkamp can retrie from NT at age of 30 why can’t these average clowns who is no where near bergkamp cannot retire from NT..for the sake of the team???
We have some world beater players at midfield and defense ..with average forward line up…with a good coach like van gaal that’s enough to beat any top team hence winning WC..
We have right winger ,frimpong just like Roben he tore apart any defense in the world..our chance of winning against a top team depends on his fitness..We have right winger who terrorise Italian defense at seri A ,his name is addai,he is banging goals and starter for FC como and he is starter..We are doomed with KNVB and clown coach who shuts down any kind of adaptability and innovation..
imagine you have clown coach who plays the best LCB in EPL as LB,who plays best RB in EPL as RCB,Benches best RB timber for dumfries…Plays repeatedly simons as right winger,who is a proven failure at right wing..plays reinders as no 10…What you expect from this clown??
I also think you are talking about Rick karsdorp when he was at Roma. There has been situations where they don’t want so call “toxic players” but if you look at what transpires or the criteria to be a toxic player. It’s just obnoxious . As I recall in karsdorp’s case he was branded a toxic player because he spoke up against Danny blind in dressing room for not getting opportunities and with Sonny in there, the word reached fathers hears and from there on he was labeled toxic. Which again points at the transparency aspect of the coaches and overlooking of players and usually at that time Ajax RBs were prioritized more as dumfries back up or make shift RBs and when dumfries was injured. Karsdorp was also injured a lot later on and where koeman took over he did get few games but then dumfries had lay his stakes in the team and you know what that means especially when it comes to rotation. But for sure if karsdorp would have been called up regularly he would have given a good competition to dumfries.
He is not talking about Karsdorp but about Devyne Rensch
Arnie Slot is begging for sacking,Dutch mangers are becoming laughing stocks of international community,Why they are hell bent on destruction of themselves..Too much ego??or a cultural thing?Terrible coaches…Arnie is not dropping salah and gakpo..plays isak instead of inform ektike..Playing scboslai as right back..Never use Joe gomez,chiesa ,Ngumoha now putting writz on bench..Gravenberch and Malsiter is struggling to seal the defensive gaps and holes at mid..konate in bad form..
Agree.
These posts tell me you don’t really get what coaching is about.
Arne has 60+ matches to manage and can’t just play Ektike constantly. He will get injured at some point and ISak won’t be fit to play due to your coaching methods. Arne needs to manage their fitness and rhythm.
Arne has dropped Salah for the West Ham game, in case you were sleeping.
Gomez was not fit. Chiesa and Rio are not right backs. Szoboslai can move into midfield as an inverted back.
So Konate is in bad form and thus Arne needs to be sacked??
I don’t think you ever reached this low level with your comments :-).
I think Slot will be sacked only IF the players have lost it with him and/or IF he has collisions with management/owners.
All the defeats Liverpool endured were tight games, where details determined the end result. The Man U and the Chelsea defeats could easily have gone the opposite way. The PSV game, Liverpool was on top in the first half but PSV scored the early goal and Liverpool missed too many chances (how is this Slot’s fault??). Against Galatasaray they conceded a ridiculous penalty.
The only match they were truly beaten was the Man City match.
Slot has great analyses and assessments of what happened why and how to deal with it.
One aspect that one cannot underestimate is the passing of Diogo Jota and the impact this has. Still. Andy Robertson mentioned it after qualifying for the WC with Scotland.
Every home game, in the 20st minute, the fans applaud. From that moment forward, the team is clearly losing spirit and intensity.
Mo Salah was very close to Jota and it’s not a surprise his game is suffering.
Remember Bhoularouz and him losing his child during the Euros in 2008? Remember how we played the next game?
If people are interested, I will post on this particular topic. Now go into a corner Emmanual and be ashamed of yourself 😉
These posts tell me you don’t really get what coaching is about.
Ans-Here we go again..ha ha pathetic statement..i do not have to know about coaching in depth to call a spade is spade..Arnie is still on verge of sack by football pundits of liverpool…Eric ten haag is sacked just after 2 games..what does it tells you??..Ten haag was sacked deservedly,people make fun of him ..
Arne has 60+ matches to manage and can’t just play Ektike constantly. He will get injured at some point and ISak won’t be fit to play due to your coaching methods. Arne needs to manage their fitness and rhythm.
Ans:-Arnie hardly rotated in last season,which was good in fact though,He plays salah and gakpo even after seeing them sitting in chair on the feild..i cannot count how many games he lost this season..
Arne has dropped Salah for the West Ham game, in case you were sleeping.
Ans;-why dont you check the timing of the comment before showing such nonsense..Arnie was on gupoint to droop salah and they won..
Gomez was not fit. Chiesa and Rio are not right backs. Szoboslai can move into midfield as an inverted back.
Ans_Gomez was fit for many games,still not used, also who said cheisa and Ngumoha are right backs and they should be used??why are coming with haywire arguments like this which i never said..??
So Konate is in bad form and thus Arne needs to be sacked??
Ans- konate is in bad form so he needs dropping ,or its arnie to find a solution,which he failed.
I don’t think you ever reached this low level with your comments :-).
Ans;-Never mind this comment
I think Slot will be sacked only IF the players have lost it with him and/or IF he has collisions with management/owners.
Ans:- no you are wrong he will be sacked if things does not improve and keep loosing..
All the defeats Liverpool endured were tight games, where details determined the end result. The Man U and the Chelsea defeats could easily have gone the opposite way. The PSV game, Liverpool was on top in the first half but PSV scored the early goal and Liverpool missed too many chances (how is this Slot’s fault??). Against Galatasaray they conceded a ridiculous penalty.
Ans—Please its an excuse.please dont come up with these kind of explanation..
The only match they were truly beaten was the Man City match.
Ans–No many games,man city just outclassed them in all aspects..
Slot has great analyses and assessments of what happened why and how to deal with it.
Ans–Yes he has decent analysis,but not that great,,or lese he would have benched Salah for chiesa ,gakpo for writz and would have started Gomez at center or right back..
One aspect that one cannot underestimate is the passing of Diogo Jota and the impact this has. Still. Andy Robertson mentioned it after qualifying for the WC with Scotland.
Ans–i dont understand that may be it affected robertson,its hard for me to imagine Robertson was thinking about Jota when liverpool is trailing by 2-0
Every home game, in the 20st minute, the fans applaud. From that moment forward, the team is clearly losing spirit and intensity.
Ans-they spent record amount,players getting millions,so thats a lame excuse
Mo Salah was very close to Jota and it’s not a surprise his game is suffering.
Ans:- Salah is so selfish prick,he might be close with Jota,Sadio mane is a gem who has already had issue with selfish salah..if not salah at least arnie would have won few more matches..
Remember Bhoularouz and him losing his child during the Euros in 2008? Remember how we played the next game?
Ans-Bhoulahruz incident was right in the middle of knockout game preparation,so thats not the case with Liverpool and Jota..
If people are interested, I will post on this particular topic. Now go into a corner Emmanual and be ashamed of yourself 😉
Ans—Yet again ,if arnie shows adaptability and flexible to change he will survive..or lese he will be sacked..Eric is already sitting at home..FDB had no wins at EPL..or under FDB his team scored??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQ2khkXyM8
This i dedicate for you..
If I have to grade Koeman overall, I would give him a C-, and that’s being very generous. And it’s mostly based in comparison to the disasters like Blind and De Boer. He’s still in charge for the next World Cup, so his final report card on his legacy will be based on that.
And on the topic of Dutch coaches lately, it is sad to see Slot collapsing at Liverpool. How do you go from winning the league, getting an unprecedented €500M transfer backing from your club owners, and flopping like that. It seems like he is totally powerless to do anything at the moment. I’m not a Liverpool fan, but a neutral Premier League viewer.
Ten Haag got fired after 3 games at Leverkusen. De Boer had decent opportunities at Inter Milan and Crystal Palace but got sacked within a few months at both. There has to be something going on that’s the common denominator with these guys.
Overall, what I see as the fundamental and key fatal flaw in the Dutch mentality and philosophy is this obsessed focus on playing attacking football, and lack of focus on defense. I don’t care who disagrees with me on this point. It is something I am strongly convinced of ever since I started watching the team since the 1990 World Cup. I think this affects players, coaches, the clubs, the academies, and even the Dutch public/fan base itself. Again please understand, I’m just saying this is one of the key issues. I’m still a fan of Dutch football, I love Dutch football, I am optimistic of its future, and I want the team to succeed.
Slot has got worse this season and I am shocked. In previous season, he adapted. Last season, he picked players based on form (Gakpo did not start at the beginning but he got into the starting XI by playing well). This season, he started doing the loyalty thing that every Dutch national team coach has done. Salah did not play well, stick with him. Gakpo did not score goals, play him more. Chiesa assisted, straight to the bench. The reason for 500m transfer is to give more options, what’s the point of sticking with the same XI?
More and more dutch coaches becoming dumb and they are becoming serial loosers…insanity is that doing the same thing and expecting different outcome..Slot has done this…
Gakpo and salah are really a problem.But so does Van dijk and Konate.so does Mcalister and Gravenberch..also full backs kerkez cannot defend properly,Frimpong is not good at defending…his bias towards Ngumoha and chiesa …this completes the tragedy..He will be rightfully sacked,
at least he should have tried
—–Eketike———————-Isaak———-
—————-Writz—————————–
kerkez—-Schboslai–Gravenberch—-Frimpong
———-Van dijk—-Konate—–gomez——————-
———————–Alisson———————————–
or
Ngumoha—————Eketike————Cheisa—
——————–writz—————————————-
———Schbolslai——-End0————————
kerkez——-Van dijk—Gomez—Bradley
——————–Alisson——————————-
This is valid point…Van de ven outclasses Van dijk in week in week out…De ligt is the best CB in EPL.Timber is the best RB in the world…
Lang is slowly getiing times st napoli and doing well…
Lang————–Gakpo————-Frimpong
—————–kees smit———————–
——Reinders———–Frenkie———————
Hartmann–Van de ven–De ligt—Timber
—————Robin roefs—————————
they are most inform balanced players we have right now
on bench
Simons————Emegha——–Malen
—————–Gravenberch———————
—–quinten—————-Schouten————–
Hato—-Virgil——-Van hecke——-Dumfries
——————–Verbruggen—————————-
on squad
Flekken
Addai
Valente
Ake——–
These posts tell me you don’t really get what coaching is about.
Ans-Here we go again..ha ha pathetic statement..i do not have to know about coaching in depth to call a spade is spade..Arnie is still on verge of sack by football pundits of liverpool…Eric ten haag is sacked just after 2 games..what does it tells you??..Ten haag was sacked deservedly,people make fun of him ..
Arne has 60+ matches to manage and can’t just play Ektike constantly. He will get injured at some point and ISak won’t be fit to play due to your coaching methods. Arne needs to manage their fitness and rhythm.
Ans:-Arnie hardly rotated in last season,which was good in fact though,He plays salah and gakpo even after seeing them sitting in chair on the feild..i cannot count how many games he lost this season..
Arne has dropped Salah for the West Ham game, in case you were sleeping.
Ans;-why dont you check the timing of the comment before showing such nonsense..Arnie was on gunpoint to droop salah and they won..
Gomez was not fit. Chiesa and Rio are not right backs. Szoboslai can move into midfield as an inverted back.
Ans_Gomez was fit for many games,still not used, also who said cheisa and Ngumoha are right backs and they should be used??why are coming with haywire arguments like this which i never said..??
So Konate is in bad form and thus Arne needs to be sacked??
Ans- konate is in bad form so he needs dropping ,or its arnie to find a solution,which he failed.
I don’t think you ever reached this low level with your comments :-).
Ans;-Never mind this comment
I think Slot will be sacked only IF the players have lost it with him and/or IF he has collisions with management/owners.
Ans:- No you are wrong he will be sacked if things does not improve and keep loosing..
All the defeats Liverpool endured were tight games, where details determined the end result. The Man U and the Chelsea defeats could easily have gone the opposite way. The PSV game, Liverpool was on top in the first half but PSV scored the early goal and Liverpool missed too many chances (how is this Slot’s fault??). Against Galatasaray they conceded a ridiculous penalty.
Ans—Please its an excuse.please don’t come up with these kind of explanation..
The only match they were truly beaten was the Man City match.
Ans–No many games,man city just outclassed them in all aspects..
Slot has great analyses and assessments of what happened why and how to deal with it.
Ans–Yes he has decent analysis,but not that great,,or lese he would have benched Salah for chiesa ,gakpo for writz and would have started Gomez at center or right back..
One aspect that one cannot underestimate is the passing of Diogo Jota and the impact this has. Still. Andy Robertson mentioned it after qualifying for the WC with Scotland.
Ans–i dont understand that may be it affected robertson,its hard for me to imagine Robertson was thinking about Jota when liverpool is trailing by 2-0
Every home game, in the 20st minute, the fans applaud. From that moment forward, the team is clearly losing spirit and intensity.
Ans-they spent record amount,players getting millions,so thats a lame excuse
Mo Salah was very close to Jota and it’s not a surprise his game is suffering.
Ans:- Salah is so selfish ,he might be close with Jota,Sadio mane is a gem who has already had issue with selfish salah..if not salah at least Arnie would have won few more matches..
Remember Bhoularouz and him losing his child during the Euros in 2008? Remember how we played the next game?
Ans-Bhoulahruz incident was right in the middle of knockout game preparation,so thats not the case with Liverpool and Jota..
If people are interested, I will post on this particular topic. Now go into a corner Emmanual and be ashamed of yourself 😉
Ans—Yet again ,if arnie shows adaptability and flexible to change he will survive..or lese he will be sacked..Eric is already sitting at home..FDB had no wins at EPL..or under FDB his team scored??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQ2khkXyM8
This i dedicate for you.
I’m sorry man, this is my last response to you. I am done with this.
Where to start.
Erik was sacked after two games. That tells you that it’s not just results. Something else was going on. A mismatch of personalities? Or did the club overpromise? Was Erik free to handle matters as initially agreed upon?
We don’t know. You don’t know. You weren’t there. So using Erik’s sacking as a model for Arne Slot is just plain ridiculous.
Saying “everybody makes fun of Erik” says more about these people. How would you react if you get sacked and people start making fun of you? I also despise the way Heitinga was treated by the media. It’s ridiculous.
I mentioned Rio and Chiesa as right back because you didn’t like Szoboslai being used in that role. So who else needed to do it? If both your RB’s are injured? You seem to think other players should play there?? Or were you implying they play without a RB?
Your comments on Salah are outright ridiculous. There has never been a more prolific right winger in the EPL and you feel you can insult him for having a bad spell.
I’m sorry man, I actually don’t like you, your views and your comments here. You are insufferable, offensive and a total football nitwit.
This is why I stopped posting.
I’m sorry man, this is my last response to you. I am done with this.
Ans:-I am sorry man i am done with this too,
Where to start.
Erik was sacked after two games. That tells you that it’s not just results. Something else was going on. A mismatch of personalities? Or did the club overpromise? Was Erik free to handle matters as initially agreed upon?
We don’t know. You don’t know. You weren’t there. So using Erik’s sacking as a model for Arne Slot is just plain ridiculous.
Ans-Erik had all the preseason and two games ,These days are every moment of coach is watched analysed,May he had some issue with management.So does every other manager..Logical answer is that they dont want to get destroyed like united..only way is that get him sacked before further damage..
Saying “everybody makes fun of Erik” says more about these people. How would you react if you get sacked and people start making fun of you? I also despise the way Heitinga was treated by the media. It’s ridiculous.
Ans;- if i am stubborn and makes stupidity and repeatedly making same mistakes again an expecting different result will force people to make fun of me..thats how the world is..i have no controll over it ,unless i listen and make adjustments or adapt..
I mentioned Rio and Chiesa as right back because you didn’t like Szoboslai being used in that role. So who else needed to do it? If both your RB’s are injured? You seem to think other players should play there?? Or were you implying they play without a RB?
Ans-Szoboslai is an exceptional player he will be good even as goal keeper,but that might not be enough for a liverpool right back..Never in my wild dream i will think of extra potent attackers like Ngumoha and chiesa as right backs..they are specialists wingers/forwards..i would never do that stupidity..They had bradley and Joe gomez in absense of frimpong..Arnie used bradley at times,He was good ,he had a tremendous game vs Mbhappe..Arnie is bigproblem was playing gakpo and Salah who both were not pressing at all..Mc alister was injured ,he never used Endo..thats where Arnie lost..
Your comments on Salah are outright ridiculous. There has never been a more prolific right winger in the EPL and you feel you can insult him for having a bad spell.
Ans–Sadio mane almost beat the shit out of salah ,,why dont you check history…Salah is a prolific selfish player.i dont blame him for lack of goals..i blame him for lack of work/pressing..you cannot score goals every game..ditto goes with Gakpo..but gakpo slowly started pressing,last game he was doing it..Good for him.liverpool and arnie..
I’m sorry man, I actually don’t like you, your views and your comments here. You are insufferable, offensive and a total football nitwit.
Ans:- Thank you for openly saying this,i we will always on opposite ends,i will be with sadio mane and you will be with salah..i also do n’t like you ,your views are always biased and one sided..YES telling the truth as it is can make you insufferable in this modern world,i will be always offensive towards who i feel offensive towards me…you are total football knuckle head.
Hahahahahahaha
You promised to not react anymore @Jan (-;
WC Group:
Netherlands
Japan
Tunisia
Ukraine/Sweden/Poland/Albania
https://dutchsoccersite.org/oranje-in-group-f-playing-against-japan-tunisia-and-winner-of-playoffs-b