Utterly co-pious! Twente 2011-2012 [R]

I don't like that at all. Three players with the same key differentiators. As in hard working physically strong love to run. We need creativity. A Kenneth Perez type.

 

Brama wasn't poor against Benfica. He made one mistake against Benfica. Big difference. Brama always scores a 6 out of 10, at least. Janssen has much of his move to Ajax to thank to Brama, but of course this isnt something Dutch people in general like to hear about. Brama is a grafter that makes players like Janssen perform better.

Twente are in a position where they can bring in huge signings. They won't though because unlike all other eredivisie clubs they think beyond the next game and the next season. The irony couldn't get any bigger really. The only financially sound club in the highest Dutch league is the only club in that league that won't spend any money. I wonder if there's any connection between the two facts. Duh.

As I've said before, with or without Ruiz, with or without Fer, this is a team that will compete in the top of the Dutch league table. In Europe it's a different story altogether of course but it's a pipedream that Dutch clubs can do well in Europe anyway as far as I'm concerned, what with the huge financial differences. What's hilarious to me is how Fer is bigged up now. He's the player most slagged off by Feyenoord fans last season. Lazy, clunky, you name it. Now all of sudden he's brilliant. I'm sorry but WTF. With the allegedly brilliant Wijnaldum and Fer Feyenoord didn't even end up in a European spot last season. So what does this mean. Were the rest of that Feyenoord side that crap? Yes Fer was good against Excelsior and Roda. But do me a favour. EXCELSIOR AND RODA.

I seriously wish we won't spend this much time on Fer. SURELY we can find a player at least that good for four million elsewhere. I feel sorry for Fer mind you, but I mostly have Twente interests at heart.

 

You might want to compare how Janssen performs at Ajax without Brama to at Twente with Brama.

 

Here's the big difference between Twente and all other eredivisie clubs: it has management that thinks beyond the next game and beyond the next season. Feyenoord by contrast thinks of this season alone, and worse, banks on this season alone. Quite literally. The big irony to me is that fans of the traditional top three like to call Twente a one off. Meanwhile it's only Twente that seems to have management that thinks beyond tomorrow. It's all good. Long may the power struggle at Ajax last, long may the cluelessness at PSV last, long may the 'we have no money but we're a big club all the same' delusion at Feyenoord last, because as long as those traditional top three clubs are badly managed, Twente will be in the mix. If the traditional top three was as well managed as Twente is, Twente would not have a chance in hell of even getting anywhere near the top three. At Twente we know this. The traditional top three are far too delusional about their stature in the modern game to know it too.

 

Yeh you just make yourself believe that. Your own coach even has his doubts considering how he's changed it up in games. Janssen a controlling midfielder behind Eriksen. What a waste of three million. If you want Eriksen to control play fair enough. What then would you buy Janssen for. His free kicks alone?

 

Well with that you're sort of proving my point. Twente got the best out of Janssen by adjusting the team to him. Ajax are not going to do that are they. Feel free to disagree. Janssen is great but Messi he ain't. He needs his soldiers. I very much doubt that Ajax is going to sacrifice players to him, even though De Boer subbing on Anita shows that he is accommodating to Janssen, at times. The success of Twente has been very much a team effort. This is what the clubs buying our players don't seem to get. Every player at Twente performs thanks to another player. While I highly rate Theo I doubt he'll get the type of support at Ajax like he did at Twente.

 

The who's better than who type of discussions are pointless. Football is a team sport. You'd be a fool not to acknowledge Brama when talking about Janssen's performance for Twente. Janssen himself has always been quite upfront about it in any case.

 

Who cares about what name you want to give a position. My point is if you want to get the max out of Janssen you have to accommodate him. Twente sacrificed a player to him, Brama that is. It's thanks to Brama that Janssen at Twente never got in the position that he had to foul people in the penalty box, and that his presence in the penalty box, or a need for him to do defensive work in general, was not required in the first place. To make the most out of Janssen you need to shape your team around him. Twente did that, I don't think Ajax will. I have said in this very thread that I never quite got the Janssen hype, long before he moved to Ajax. Yes he can decide games for you, and he has the best left foot in the league, but to Twente fans, who by the way loved Janssen as a person, he was never our best player, and it's not like they downgraded him because they hated him. I think Janssen himself has said in an interview that yes he can perform and not look out of sorts in even the highest quality team, but he can't see himself elevate the quality of a mediocre team

You know this is pretty much the story with most other former Twente players. Twente has been a team effort for a long time, with players excelling thanks to their team mates. Maybe Janssen will prove me wrong.

 

What the national media deem your best player is rarely who your match going fans deem your best player. I'm sure it's the same at Ajax. By the way, the VI/Gilette player of the year award went to Brama, not Janssen.

 

The thing is these player of the year awards are biased. Yes Theo Janssen was a deciding factor in many a Twente game, but if you look at how he was rated on Twente fansites throughout the season it tells a different story. My dad for example, a Twente season ticket holder like me, but for a lot longer than me, wasn't sorry at all to see Theo go, and mind you he's seen the Van De Kerhoffs, Schrijvers, Muehrens and Thijssens play at Twente, he knows what we can miss and what we can't.

Twente is a club with limited resources. Team effort is everything. Individuals, contrary to popular belief, are not so relevant. That even extends to the importance of the coach.

 

The VI-Gillette one isn´t more subjective than the Telegraaf one. Both are based on subjective opinions. And many people would argue that VI is rather a lot more objective than De Telegraaf. De Telegraaf has a clearer agenda in any case.

 

Twente is a family affair at my end! Mind you at least you´re spared heated discussions about football at family dinners.

The Fer camp just increased pressure on Feyenoord for not allowing him to leave to Twente tonight on VI tv, even though he´s told the print media he´s resigned to the fact that Feyenoord won´t let him go.

This whole situation has got so impossible that I can´t see him not end up at Twente to be honest. And like I said I´m not exactly a big fan of his let alone of Twente paying full whack for him.