Home of the reigning Eredivisie champions - Heyyyy WhoHooooooo F.C. Twente! [R]

Well here we go again, yet another thread in what promises to be another fun season for the Pride of the East.

Great win over Utrecht today, not because of the score (4-0, twice Janko, twice De Jong) so much but because of how it was done. Now that Tiote has left we basically play an ultra-attacking 4-2-4 with De Jong behind Janko as a number 10, Ruiz on the right wing and Chadli on the left, but they all have the freedom to run wherever there's space and if anything it's enormously entertaining.

Great game for 19-year old Belgian-Moroccan Chadli and for man of the match Janssen (we were singing Wesley Sneijder Theo is coming!). Rosales looks like he's still taking some time to get used to the team, dodgy first half but good second half. Douglas and Wisgerhof had feck all to do, Utrecht had one shot on target all game. Van Wolfswinkel - had to check to see if he actually played as I haven't seen him. Bajrami was benched but that says everything about how well young Chadli has been doing. To think the boy cost us just half a million!

Interesting stat: sixth clean sheet in a row now and only team in the league table this season with zero goals conceded. Over the past 11 league games we conceded one goal. We won't be pushovers in the CL.

Also: Perez and Heubach said goodbye before the game. I was loving Heubach. "There is only one club in this country!"

 

Re: Home of the reigning Eredivisie champions - Heyyyy WhoHooooooo F.C. Twente!

Thanks. Here's hoping that people recognise the chant in the thread title and can't stop themselves singing it!

 

Re: Home of the reigning Eredivisie champions - Heyyyy WhoHooooooo F.C. Twente!

We won't be boring that's for sure. Here's Luuk de Jong's beauty (from today his name is Luukinho)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSA0vkyyUu4"]YouTube- Fc Twente - Fc Utrecht 4-0 Goal Luuk De Jong ( Luukinho )[/ame]

 

Around this time last season he called Ruiz 'een juffertje'!

News: Carney and Javadov are leaving the club, not sure where to but both have apparently already signed elsewhere.

Landzaat in on a one year contract.

 

Summary of Twente Tifo choreos over the years (word of advice: turn off the sound unless you're into happy hardcore)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzPOgsAMKI&feature=related"]YouTube- FC Twente sfeerfoto's & liedjes[/ame]

 

That's the spirit.

 

Theyll very likely to underestimate Twente.

 

Yeh you do!! Check the bookies. You're rated much higher than Twente.

 

I'm not really bothered about what fans of the other clubs think. The less they think of us the better actually HA! Sneijder will know we're no pushovers though. As will Bremen.

We're solid defensively which gives me a bit of hope. And I think these type of games are made for Bryan Ruiz.

 

Ha! Exactly. I hope we'll both prove the sceptics wrong.

At least UEFA likes us. Official news on the Twente website is that a camera crew of Uefa.com are following Twente throughout the CL group stage for video content on their website. UEFA's Agnew is quoted as saying, among others: "Twente is a real club, it's more than just a football team. The club is showing what a positive influence football can have on society." At least we're respected in one department!

Dutch link on Twente website

http://www.fctwente.nl/nieuws/statisch/item_10450.html

I'll put links up as soon as they post their first footage.

 

I don't know what the elite are paying but for us normal folk you can get a passe partout for all three CL home games for a minimum of 93 and a maximum of 130 Euros. Which is quite reasonable really. For a change the online ticketing went well as well this morning first thing.

 

He was sold but we don't know who to yet. Second division side in England I heard.