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

Yeh he´s been spotted househunting over here even. In De Lutte. Which is a genuine village btw. Home to many a Twente football star.

I´ll just have to get used to it I guess.

 

Hahaaa don´t tell me you´re a fan now.

 

Anyway it´s 95% certain that Adriaanse is joining Twente, as I´ve been told by various sources. He wanted Olde Riekerink, sacked yesterday by Ajax, as an assistant coach, but Twente apparently aren´t having any of that.

Negotiations with Fer apparently also are in a very advanced stage.

 

Janssen does some things brilliantly at world class level and he can be a deciding factor. But as an alround footballer I have to say mwah. He´s the midfield version of a phantom striker. You don´t see him for 85 mins then he decides the game for you. And he does not defend. One big urban myth is the quality of his corner kicks. Twente´s corner kicks were terrible all last season. And we had Janko and towering defenders up front mind. The one quality Janssen can bring to Ajax is that he´s a true personality both on and off the pitch. He can truly inspire the fans and his colleagues, but only in the big games. That´s the problem with Janssen really. He picks his games. He got away with that and his off the pitch behaviour at Twente, because Twente is that kind of club. I don´t really know what kind of coach de Boer is. One thing I do know is though that if you want to get the best out of Janssen, you have to let him be. We´ll see. I wish him all the best because I love that he´s politically incorrect, and that he´s one of few footballers left in this world who doesn´t sound like he´s had PR training. But that´s exactly why I worry for him at Ajax. I just hope Ajax won´t kill off his soul.

 

I never said that he was shitty! He´s obviously got great, match deciding qualities and the best left foot in the country by a mile. But he can´t do it on his own, he needs team mates around him to do the less glamourous work for him. And he comes with a user´s manual. So how he´ll do with Ajax is a question mark, that´s all I´m saying. We have cursed the man in many a game, trust me. So don´t be surprised if you´re watching him an Ajax shirt for 80 minutes , and you´re talking to your mates about how rubbish a game he´s having and when will he bloody start defending his direct opponent, and then the next minute he scores a wondergoal. That´s Theo for you.

 

Several sources and Twente watchers confirm that it is pretty much certain that Adriaanse has signed with us. He will be presented on Tuesday or Wednesday and will be coaching the team for the first time on Thursday when we´re playing our first friendly against an amateur side. Twente´s season already starts on Monday, first training. All internationals will be missing, they´ve got another couple of weeks rest.

 

A lot of total bollix written about Twente in the Dutch papers today. Janko to Italy, Ruiz linked to a billion clubs, etc etc.

We're all anxiously awaiting the first training session to see if Adriaanse gets confirmed as our new coach.

 

I rate him as a coach. It's just his personality that I loathe.

 

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