News: Dutch players at home and abroad worthy to be tracked in connection with the Dutch NT - Part 4

For me it would be a mistake to give De Ligt a starting spot with Ajax next season. Good for NT developpement but bad for Ajax.

Sanchez makes amateur mistakes sometimes and he needs a better and more experienced player next to him, not a younger one...

I'd rather consider De Ligt going to a sub eredivisie team on loan to gain experience, he's still very young, no need to rush.

There's a need to rush on Nouri and Van de Beek

 

I say let s bring a good 25-30yo center back.

That s probably the hardest thing for dutch clubs...they either go for youngsters or for tired oldies like Heitinga and Westermann.

Feyenoord and PSV have been making some good purchases recently though.

A player like Moreno would be ideal next to Sanchez.

 

Tuning in right now to watch Robben tear Arsenal a new one

 

Robben!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Goal and an assist, he loves playing Arsenal!

 

How good was Robben once again????

Wave after wave on that right wing!! Unstoppable!!

 

Ebecilio was good when he started, Sana too...means nothing.

Moreno is a player I would trust to play an important game, De Ligt no.

Ajax has always failed because of experience problems, Van der Hoorn touching Balotelli in the box in the last minutes etc. only masochist people would like the same thing to happen again and again.

Ajax would never have passed the group stage ahead Manchester like PSV did last year, Moreno and Guardado helped a lot. You need to have this type of players.

 

Ajax bought Moisander from AZ back in 2012 which i thought was a great purchase. He was 25yo back then so what you mentioned above has been done in the past and is certainly possible of reoccuring again.

 

Looking at the last few CL matches of EPL clubs, they really go through the floor defensively when confronted with real quality strike forces. It's like watching AZ's last two EL games.

 

I say as long as de Ligt continues to excel keep playing him. The Eredivisie teams in general should be blooding as many young players as possible it needs to be a developmental league for our NT. Try and tie up young players to long contracts, keep them together as long as possible, and if they aren't struggling then give them as much gametime as possible.

 

Let's pretend Ajax finishes second this year and play the CL knockout against an average team and loses with De Ligt making big mistakes ? What to do then ?

 

Because you won't pass a CL group stage with them. Ajax should go for more ambition. Weren't Riedewald and Viergever on the field when Ajax lost to Rostov ? Riedewald was also there against Rapid Wien...How many chances to do you want to give to these players ? They've already managed to screw up the dutch coefficient for 10 years, enough is enough.

Viergever remains an average defender and Ajax can find better on the market, Riedewald is a better DM than CB for sure, De Ligt is too young...

Ideally I'd like something like this for next year :

----------------------------------------------------Onana/Krul (Krul/Onana)----------------------------------------------------------------

Tete ( Lartey ?)----------------------Sanchez ( Westermann)--------------? (Viergever)------------------- ? (Sinkgraven)-----

--------------------------------Riedewald ( ?) ----------------------Schone ( V d Beek)------------------

--------------------------------------------------------Nouri (F de Jong)----------------------------------------------------------

Neres (Cassierra)-----------------------------------Dolberg (Huntelaar)---------------------------------------Ziyech (Younes)

Would like to bring three experienced players thus. A CB, a midfielder (Anita ?) and Huntelaar with the money of Klaassen and Veltman.

The LB I'm thinking about Haps, I don't mind bringing a youngster as LB if he's talented, Sinkgraven is no long term solution there. I want to have a better defender.

I would start Schone and Huntelaar instead of V d Beek and Dolberg for the european games, but it depends on the form of the players though .

I've put Cassierra as RW but I'm not sure he can serve there, I just don't really like the idea to have him as 3rd striker as I believe he got more qualities now than a player like Cerny and deserves to have playing time.

I would try to put two players on loan between De Ligt, Eiting, Kluivert and Cerny and the two other ones would stay with Jong Ajax and eventually be third choices with the first team.

 

Yeah that was just something I would like but I know it's not going to happen.

I heard some english clubs wanted to put 10m on Veltman.

 

How long do I have to wait for another Dutch player that can reminds me of Bergkamp? http://www.eurosport.com/football/p...gkamp-s-perfect-moment_sto6075276/story.shtml

 

Why would you bench Sinkgraven when he's been one of the best players, and the team functions very well with him at left wingback? They're not going to change formation either. So I guess there's no point in ever playing young players just in case they make a mistake or something. A player destined to be great will learn from his mistakes and become better. Burying de Ligt behind someone else because you're afraid that he might make a mistake isn't going to be good for his development.

 

Yeah so basically let's play him and spoil the dutch coefficient even more, and when he'll learn from his mistakes and gain experience, he'll be playing for a foreign club.

That's the story of dutch football since 2005.

 

Untill we ban playstation and that Microsoft thing. Kids are more agile with their thumbs nowadays than with their legs and feet. Plus gazing for hours at a screen while you're a kid develops your eyes into myopia condition ( so strong advice for growing up kids unil 20: spend at least as much hours looking far distances as you spend on watching something at arm's length). Both things are bad for your performance on the pitch, no development of spatial awareness because of your eyesight and also not having the tools to do something positive with the ball.

 

Gala not too happy with Sneijder anymore:

http://www.ad.nl/transfer-talk/galatasaray-wil-van-sneijder-af~ac1bddad/

 

Dost's 4 goals: http://footyroom.com/matches/79925210/tondela-vs-sporting-cp/review

He coudve had 5 or 6. Tondela defending was shockingly bad

 

Bundasliga would have been stepping stone for him unlike in Portugal where apart from few clubs,the rest are average.