All red except for our bank account: FC Twente Pride of the East [R]

Tweemaal zullen wij de kampioenen zijn!

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Re: All red except for our bank account: FC Twente Pride of the East

I know I should be politically correct and all but what with today's news coming out about PSV being in accute financial trouble (they're renegotiating sponsorship deals and are trying to get Philips to up their investment) I can't help but smile. That's also what the thread title is about: we're quite literally the only financially healthy club in the Dutch league now.

So even if we don't win the league this season, we'll still be the moral champions!

 

Re: All red except for our bank account: FC Twente Pride of the East

Very small as as per bloody usual we got the worst draw possible.

 

Re: All red except for our bank account: FC Twente Pride of the East

Yeh and we're playing them at the coldest time of the year - brilliant. When Barcelona was playing them last year (I think) Guardiola said their main mission was to get the team off the pitch without frozen limbs.

Anyway some news: Twente have signed a cooperation agreement with Manchester United. The latter have a youth academy in South America but it's difficult in England to get a work permit for South American youngsters. That's where Twente comes in.

 

Oh and Ruiz is back in training! Woohoooooooo

 

Re: All red except for our bank account: FC Twente Pride of the East

Yes. I don't mind. We won the league last season with two on-loan premiership players from Chelsea (Stoch, Rajkovic). As long as it's just a couple I'm fine with it. They're also talking about some class of 'commercial partnership'. I've no idea what that would entail.

 

Onyewu loan deal officially confirmed by Twente. Initially for six months.

 

Seeing that he hasn't played in what, over a year? it's unrealistic to expect him to start league games for Twente immediately. We're still in Europe and in the domestic cup though so he'll get his chances time all right. If he's good enough he'll play, that's the bottom line. Last season Twente had Stoch and Rajkovic on loan from Chelsea. Stoch won a starting place, Rajko did not. The point being that it will all be down to how good Onyewu really is.

 

By the way, the players we've had on loan over the years all tend to increase in value and stature. Following his successful season with Twente, Chelsea sold Stoch to I believe Fenerbahce. PSV loaned out Aisatti to Twente and subsequently sold him to Ajax. We loaned Mihaylov from Liverpool and subsequently signed him - he's now Bulgaria's and our first goalkeeper. If players have quality, Twente does get it out of them. AC Milan probably knows that, as does ManU who've just signed a collaboration agreement with us to stall their South American talents with us.

 

Are these the strange things that made UEFA include him as the only Dutch league player in the UEFA team of the year?