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Monkey Tonk schreef:Ten Cate fired by Chelsea.

gordonvandekamp schreef:Looks like ten Cate is taking over at Panathinaikos.

gordonvandekamp schreef:Looks like ten Cate is taking over at Panathinaikos.

Kowalczyk schreef:

gordonvandekamp schreef:Looks like ten Cate is taking over at Panathinaikos.

Yeah, and guess who he's just asked to be his assistant... Good old Yannis Anastasiou!

Interesting move.

K.

"I always thought Van Basten was a great guy to interview. I always enjoyed his press conferences and somehow and I found it painful to find him a bad coach. But now, Van Basten had the courage to look into the mirror without any bitterness. He was the first to admit he'd failed."

The man who always seemed to have an aura of invincibility in his days as a striker, had now lost all of his magic. "Marco was sitting there, wearing a simple, blue sweater," says Barend. "Not a jacket or a suit. I could see Marco sitting at home, wearing his slippers, Liesbeth and the kids by his side, on the couch. I can understand how you want to live a simple, small life, after having been a superstar. Van Basten always knew that glamour is phoney. That blue sweater fascinated me. He was sitting there as a very simple man and that was what gave him an overwhelming dignity at that moment. I thought it was very moving, I wanted to applaud him."

Van Basten's sense of dignity contrasts sharply with Louis van Gaal's relations with the media, says Barend. "The effect I have on him seems to be that of a red cloth on a bull. Louis failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup with Holland and I asked him, in a very friendly and calm way: do you think you made mistakes yourself, Louis? He was outraged. How did I dare ask him that? In those days Van Gaal was a bad example to his players, in my opinion. He was their alibi to behave like total jerks in the media. I do believe Van Gaal is a man of morals and values, but journalists never get to experience that. At the moment he's boycotting the NOS [the Dutch BBC] and Eredivisie Live again. We should all consider to show solidarity and say: alright, let's all boycott Louis van Gaal then. But that's not how it works, in practice."

Kowalczyk schreef:Ronald Koeman to join AZ!

That is fantastic news in two different ways.

1. He's not coming to Ajax

2. He's going to AZ

Once again he will slowly but surely destroy the fantastic work of a great predecessor. It won't show just yet in his first season, but after that the rotting process will kick in - and then he'll probably resign at some point during his second season, just before they would have fired him anyway. And he will leaving a big fucking pile of smoking crap, like he always does (ask Ajax, ask PSV, ask Valencia).

Great news. Wonderful. Co: come on now, mate. Just sign that Ajax contract. It's waiting for you.

K.

Kowalczyk schreef:Ronald Koeman to join AZ!


K.

GangstaRiB schreef:Co Adriaanse.. the man that turned down Ajax and AZ because he wanted to have vacation... signed a 1-year deal at Galatasaray (Turkey).....

GangstaRiB schreef:Co Adriaanse.. the man that turned down Ajax and AZ because he wanted to have vacation... signed a 1-year deal at Galatasaray (Turkey).....