Officially the most fascinating club in the country - FC Twente [R]

I am away for a couple of days and the Twente thread is closed? WTF?! And Paga has joined the power hungry mods. Oh dear. Well at least he's not an Ajax fan.

I had a good time in Spain despite of the battering which I of course predicted so I wasn't too disappointed. We can say bye-bye to the Europa league but never mind, no matter how crap we get fortune has it that pretty much all other Dutch clubs in the eredivisie are even crapper than us so no harm done. Bring on the battle for the Dutch title! Our team is tired and half of them are semi-injured or banned or whatever but never mind, we're Twente! We've got more fighting spirit than the rest of the league put together s.o again, bring it on!

 

Re: Officially the most fascinating club in the country - FC Twente

Oh and by the way we really are officially the most fascinating club in the country. As per the Club Positioning Matrix 2010-2011, based on a survey among 4,500 random Dutch people.

 

Re: Officially the most fascinating club in the country - FC Twente

Well if you read the pre-match interviews, with Janssen and Preudhomme, they both literally said that Villareal is two categories better than Twente, and that the top priorities were 1. league 2. cup 3. Europa league. I personally don't think Preudhomme would have experimented with the tactics in a league game. Or in the cup final.

I don't think Preudhomme is arrogant enough to believe Twente can emulate Barcelona in any way.

 

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Funny you should say that considering Ajax's actions after the Suarez bite. Banned from league games but not from European games. Something about throwing stones and glass houses.

 

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That's not what the Dutch public think.

 

Some news & rumours.

Apparently Real Madrid are interested in our right back Rosales, according to various sources in Spain.

Theo Janssen denies that he's off to Fenerbahce, his exact words in fact were 'no way'.

We're buying a young 18-year old Brazilian from Esporte Clube Vitória. His full name is Maycon Vinicius Ferreira da Cruz. Football name Nikão. This isn't through the ManU partnership but Twente's own scouting work. His contract is said to be nearly finalised and he's joining us in the summer.

He doesn't look half bad but I guess you can make anyone look good on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EizyIEkyVnk&feature=youtu.be

 

Traffic yes, probably, but he wasn't scouted through ManU and he won't be contracted as part of the ManU deal. We contracted him independently, as in we won't be forced to 'sell' him to ManU at any given time.

 

Oh stop it already with the holier than thou attitude. I never heard you whinge about Ajax buying Sulejmani, Mido, Tainio, Oleguer, etc., or your youth academy stacking up on Belgian and Danish 16 year olds.

Twente still is a long way of Ajax revenues. Like most Dutch clubs we have financial limitations and have to be creative in our scouting. Plus we, unlike some, aren't so stupid so as to fall for buying overpriced Dutch league players.

 

He's foreign and in the minds of a lot of Dutch people that means he will always be a tactical dimwit. Ignore the snobism BG, it comes mostly from the Randstad. We in Twente know better.

 

"At least he's Dutch" is not a value judgement? "That was a little different as Ajax..." is not a value judgement? Of course Ajax pays compensation to these clubs. So does every single other Dutch club that picks up a foreign youngster. All football clubs are as bad as each other.

Of course Ajax starts more players from its youth system. Ajax has a scouting radius with a population of over 5 million, stretching as far out as Utrecht (Sneijder, Van Basten!). Twente has a scouting radius with a population of 600,000. It would be downright weird if the likes of Ajax and Feyenoord weren't picking up more talent than Twente, also owing to their historical status and pulling power.

What I'm reading into your posts is that you don't believe Twente has the right to be creative in its scouting. I always get from your posts and those of other Ajax fans a 'Twente should stay in its box' message. As if it's difficult for you lot to accept that Twente is going to try everything it bloody well can to stay on top, and to continue to grow.

Also I wish you wouldn't take this personally. We're just having a discussion about two football clubs and we disagree. That's hardly earth shattering is it.

 

Well it's goodbye to Europe then!

We played really well in the first half I have to say, couple of chances to go 2-0 up. When tiendalli was (stupidly) sent off it was all over though. Atmosphere was fantastic throughout the game, we gave the team a proper thank you for what overall was a brilliant and at times just weird European season, from the first CL game where we got a draw v Inter, immediately shutting up the Dutch football community who said we had no business in that CL, through to the bizarre 0-2 away at Rubin Kazan at minus 20 (no Twente fan - or player! - will ever forget that one).

Back to league business!

 

Praise from Villareal fans on Twitter for our fans:


.madridatleticos Cuatro(Spanish TV channel) are praising the twente fans for still singing even though they are losing and going out #vivaproperfans

.VillarrealCF @spgore @aupasubmarino have you checked villarrealusa.com? or simplyfutbol.com BTW TWENTE'S FANS ARE AWESOME

.aupasubmarino #Villarreal 3rd European semifinal. Congrats to awesome #Twente fans.. If i have to support a team in the Dutch League, I pick Twente

I in turn want to wish Villareal good luck in the Europa league! Do the Dutch a favour and win the thing now (we don't like the Portuguese and that's putting it mildly)

 

Re: Officially the most fascinating club in the country - FC Twente

What statistics? The thread title refers to the Club Positioning Matrix (CPM). It's based on an independent survey by Sport + Markt, a football research company. The league has this done every year. It in part determines the distribution of television money. All official I'm afraid. By the by, according to the same CPM, Twente is also the most attractive club in the Netherlands.