I deserve to be burnt at the stakes for saying wanted by rather than being investigated by the FBI. Because being investigated by the FBI is nothing special, it happens to everybody in Dutch football at some stage. Emir Bajrami had an FBI check-up because he had the look of a terrorist!* So why this bit of information about the new owner of a football club was even mentioned, no-one knows. *Hint for the people without a sense of humour, you know who you are: yes that was fabricated. Or manipulated even!
Well at the least you should be corrected. But I have no problem burning you at a stake if that's what you deserve.
Purely semantic matter. They want to investigate him. Anyway, last thing I heard the FBI transferred Jordania to a 'special investigations site' in The Netherlands. To be sure, there is no better way to investigate a person than to subject him to the rigorous scrutinizing of the Dutch football media (let alone blogging community).
Glad you asked. They are secretly taking control of Cambuur Leeuwarden. Stanley Menzo is actually a trained counter intelligence operative. The FBI is attempting to sabotage European football from the inside out.
So I'm the only one here who laughs at these the Vitesse owner is well dodgy stories, true or untrue? It really is time for Twente Free Republic as over here people will party in the streets if that club goes down sooner than Johan Derksen insults Yolanthe again - but I guess Tukkers are alone in this jiudging from this board. If there has been one example of chronic mismanagement in Dutch football it is them over the past ten years and everybody (in the Netherlands at least) knows it. Now they have sold their soul to make matters even worse - what are we, England? It will be a victory for Dutch football if a club like De Graafschap finishes ahead of them this season as far as I'm concerned. Interesting factoid: last season Vitesse v Twente attendance 18,000, last week after news of new ownership came out attendance at Vitesse v Twente 12,000 [cue JC14 checking last season's league stats desperate to tell me off for manipulating the facts again, bless]
I really doubt most Tukkers are as emotionally connected with the fate of Vitesse as you imply. Cause you have the tendency to generalize your opinion whenever it suits you. I think, like most people, they don't give a shit. And I think it's very probable the lower attendance has to do with other factors such as vacation instead of disdain for the new owner. I'm willing to bet that average attendance is going to be higher this year if they succeed to sign a few decent players. And I'm not desperate to disprove you at all. I'm not even trying. You're just often so blatantly distorting the truth that I feel the need to correct you.
Alright this looks like it's going to get nasty, so you two may want to stay away from each other for a while .
I was just voicing an opinion, I'm not asking you to agree. I never said anything about the reasons for the lower attendance either. I said interesting factoid. What you read into that is in your mind. If you don't believe how people feel about Vitesse in Twente, or indeed most parts of the country, be my guest, but the Dutch-based posters here can read other Dutch football forums and know what the general sentiment is. Even before the take-over Vitesse wasn't exactly popular outside of Arnhem. New ownership hasn't helped their case in that regard. Again feel free to disagree. I ain't bothered.
Nah... and you did not manipulate what was in his mind by conveniently placing this completely unrelated factoid right after your little rantoid about Vitesse's legacy of mismangement and their new, allegedly not to be trusted, owner? At all?
When will Yasuda plays his first game? I'm from Osaka but i always was a fan from Vitesse since i was a kid
here's their schedule http://www.vitesse.org/wedstrijden/programma.html they will play 2 more friendlies in turkey, i reckon he will feature in both. their 1st league match after the winter break is 22 january away in tilburg. there's glimpses of him in this video http://www.vitesse.nl/vitesse-tv-bekijk/meet-greet-in-belek/231
Me thinks relegation could put a little hitch in Merab Jordania's plans for Dutch domination. It doesn't matter how much money you have to throw at players when you compete in the Jupiler league!
Statistically they do well against Fc Groningen at home, I hope they win, have some money on them, together with de Graafschap not losing against Twente. Relegation would be fun though, Jordania and Abramovich with their sneaky plan going down. In the Jupiler League with their 'stars' and 'Gelredome'
Kunimitsu Sekiguchi will play for Vitesse next season. I hope the Billionairs there will invest a lot for a good squad. Slowly there will play more japanese in the Dutch League. I head also that Gillhaus will be the new chief scout for Vitesse. Hopefully more Japanese players will play there. They will play in the Champions League soon.
Vitesse needs to start making some moves. Really thin looking squad right now. I guess they'll probably have to bring in a bunch of players on loan again.
[LINEUP-4-4-2]Bony, Pedersen, Sekiguchi, Aissati, Van Ginkel, Chanturia, Yasuda, Kashia, Rajkovic, van der Struijk, Room[/LINEUP-4-4-2] I think they need a new goalkeeper, defensive midfielder, right defender, centre defender. With 4 new basicplayers they can try to reach top 5 level.