And when these mediocre clubs get into Europe, they disappoint. I'm not sure I want Feyenoord playing in Europe's B or C league with this current squad. It would be torture to watch. I would rather mow the lawn than watch poor play.
342029 Uhm, no. Van Persie was asked a question why Timber was on the bench and he explained it, not complaining! Not a fall out before, but after the match when Timber asked the espn reporter if he could say something, he was the one who started the fall out. Actually, when I months ago already wanted Timber to be sidelined, van Persie said he was going to use Timber, despite his conflict with the board about his extention refusal. It seemed the Board wanted tougher measures against Quinten, but RvP didnot agree. The only thing that happened was his captain role being taken away. And let's be honest about Quinten. He hasnot been great this season, before and after his injuries. Iirc I only could mention him once as a stand out match being played. He simply has been eclipsed by Luciano Valente. Quinten didnot progress from last season, which I actually expected him to be better than last season, but in my opinion his mind was from day one of the start of the season he was going to leave and not sign a contract (something his brother unintentionally revealed in a post on his internet media) and this led him to be distracted and not playing well. Jurrien's mistake by unintended revealing Quinten had already made up his mind a few months ago and his constant beating around the bush by incincererely suggesting an extention was still on the table, hardened my opinion RvP made a mistake to keep him in the selection. I wanted Timber out of play to hurt his WC chances, if he's not going to resign, but in the end he loses his Orange Squad chances to Valente. I honestly don't know why both were signed, but that's hardly the blame of Robin, isnot it? Ueda seems to have had some fitness issues. Let's be honest to Robin, can we? The first 8 matches we played brilliant football, with only 7 goals conceded and the press was in awe and we were going to challenge PSV. Then the midfield and defense injury wave happened, at a given moment 11 or 12 players were injured and we had to go into a European match without a proper back. The situation was so dire players, recovered from injury but of course not fully fit, had to play out of necesity as there werenot enough players left. I don't doubt RvP in this whole thing might have made mistakes of his own, but given the circumstances it's a bit opportunistic to trash him, while when he had all the tools in his selection fit and healthy, he was praised for how we played and as the only one able to face Bosz.
Justin Bijlow is off to join Genoa of Serie A, and Quinten Timber to join Marseille where he joins Igor Paixao. They can reminisce together about playing under Arne Slot. Bijlow transfer fee a pathetic €200k IF he passes the physical, and Timber's will also be fairly low. The Portuguese are laughing at Feyenoord's transfer policy (translation): "For the first time in history, the big three [Benfica, Porto, Sporting] have managed to collaborate," a social media post reads. "The cast-offs from each club are being sent to Feyenoord. Benfica is selling Casper Tengstedt, FC Porto is selling Gonçalo Borges, and Sporting CP is selling Jeremiah St. Juste. The director of this club must be investigated," the argument goes.
Feyenoord will bring in Go Ahead Eagles' RB Mats Deijl after he plays his final match for GAE in the Europa League next Thursday. He is the GAE captain and can also play CB. Lotomba will be allowed to leave. The purchase price is only €300k so there must be a catch. Is he also injury prone?
Quinten Timber's sale price to Olympic Marseille is only €4.5m although his market value is €25m. Of course, he would be €0m in the summer since he refused to sign a contract extension. Feyenoord might have some of the worst negotiators on the planet. Should have forced a sale last summer when he refused to negotiate an extension. I suspect he and his agent planned this in advance. Bijlow did pass his physical in Genoa so he is gone gone gone.
Dunno if that's really the price. Go Ahead Eagles tell there was a release clause in the contract for that amount, but they say the clause expired this season.
342928 Van Persie puts together a special puzzle at battered Feyenoord: striker in the back, Borges on the left winger After the win against Sturm Graz, there is a glimmer of hope for Feyenoord in the Europa League. For the Rotterdammers, a win against Real Betis is necessary to reach the intermediate round.
That Larin dude, How many chances do you need to score a goal. In the first half several (3) goals, both by Betis as by Feyenoord were cancelled.
There is a lot of criticism of Feyenoord's European season, but there is praise from Spain after the defeat against Real Betis. For example, AS saw that Real Betis was 'shaken by a weakened Feyenoord'. An equalizer would have hurt the Spaniards a lot in the Europa League rankings. 'La Cartuja was almost silenced.' Mundo Deportivo saw that Feyenoord was not rewarded. 'The Dutch club is outside the top 24, although they kept trying until their last breath.' Marca did not count on so much opposition from Rotterdam South. 'Getting the win turned out to be more difficult than expected. 'The Dutch team needed a win and hoped for favorable other results, so they entered the field determined to play an open, attacking game. However, their problem was in defense, where a series of injuries forced them to let players play in unusual positions.' Even when the situation seemed hopeless, Feyenoord kept going, according to the Madrid sports newspaper. 'Van Persie's men needed three goals for a chance of a continuation in the Europa League. The 2-0 lead should have paralyzed the match, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Dutch continued to persevere. They kept trying until the very last moment and showed respect for the Europa League.'
PSV 3-0 Feyenoord. Match was over at 17'. I have never played football other than kick-arounds in the playground, but even ignorant me sees the stupidity of trying to play ticky-tack, tight passing in YOUR OWN BOX. Boot the ball DOWNFIELD rather than give the opponent the chance to steal and shoot from inside the box. And sure glad that Feyenoord sold Guus Til to PSV several seasons ago because he wasn't good enough for Feyenoord, eh?
Mats Deijl's comments after the PSV drubbing (translated): "I haven't been with the team for very long, but it's clear we need to improve. Especially in the first half, it was difficult to determine the right moment to press. It's better to wait a bit and push forward at the right time. Now, it wasn't very cohesive, and the spaces were very large. That's clearly something we need to pay a lot of attention to, because it's difficult to put teams under high pressure this way." Deijl continues: "It's important that everyone on the team has the same idea, and you see that if one or two guys have a slightly different idea, they have too much quality to play under it. That was the story of the first half. In the second half, they don't need to anymore, and they ease off a bit. I certainly felt like we showed more courage in pressing, getting more one-on-one opportunities, which is what we wanted in the first half. But what I'm saying is: they're also slowing down a bit. It's a shame that we couldn't create something offensively in the second half to at least put some pressure on them. We didn't manage that either." I think we found a candidate for the new trainer.
And then El Ahmadi always weighed in with astute views (translated): “You haven't won a top match yet this season. That also has to do with the fact that you keep approaching things the same way every time. You can also think for once: we haven't won so many matches against top teams, let's do something different for once. And today you also put PSV to their best advantage.” It's striking that manager Robin van Persie explicitly confirmed before the match that Feyenoord would simply play their own style. "As always." This makes Van Persie's team very predictable. PSV clearly had an answer and outclassed Feyenoord on every point. Hey, yet another candidate for the trainer's position.
343270 Didnot Til wanted to move himself after Santi Giménez was contracted? Feyenoord didnot sell him, Feyenoord wanted to keep him, but he was on loan from iirc Spartak Moscow and Til decided to sign for PSV.
PSV several times used a dirty trick when a free kick into the box was launched. In the row of defenders forming the offside line for players of PSV, they pushed one of the defenders, making him fall towards the goal and thus making room for an attacker to prevent being off side. Schouten's action, which obviously was a foul, did result in the Veerman free kick headed in: 10' GOAL PSV After ten minutes of play, PSV is already in the lead. Veerman kicks a free kick, which is headed in by Obispo. PSV's central defender is able to head the ball in fairly freely. For Veerman, it is the fiftieth assist in the service of PSV.
Shaqueel van Persie's injury is less serious than expected after medical examination. The results are positive and show that surgery is not necessary. Van Persie is in a rehabilitation process and Feyenoord considers it realistic that the talent can still play this season. Shaqueel van Persie came down ugly in the European duel against Real Betis Sevilla after a header duel. The son of coach Robin van Persie had to leave the field on a stretcher, and seemed to have a long rehabilitation ahead of him. So that seems to be not that bad. It is the debut season for Van Persie in Feyenoord 1. So far, he has made 6 appearances in all competitions in which he scored 2 times.
Yeah, that's what happened. And now Gimenez is gone gone gone, and Til is still knocking in goals in the Eredivisie. No one seems to want to stick around Feyenoord.