blutgraetsche wrote:So it's safe to say that the 'San Marco' days are over? How does the press treat him these days? And what about the fans? What are the expectations for 2008? Do you think that the FA might fire him should Holland fail to impress or even struggle in the Euro qualification?
Our FA, the KNVB, offered him a contract extension imediately after the WC.
There are plenty of fans who are more realistic though.
His biggest true mistake was getting cold feet before the WC after the succesful qualifying was done. He got second doubts about the young squad, and fucked with a winning formula. He culled key players (Opdam)and puts fodder instead (Heitinga, Jaliens), thus missing with the team "harmony". Everyone needed to get reacquinted again
during the WC. Especially the defense suffered.
I don't mind certain mistakes, but Marco doesn't learn from them and he isn't rational either. He's pathetically biased towards Ajax - which is good if they have the players - but he selects overhyped underperforming bench warmers for our first XI instead. He fails to select the true team, then fails the start our best players (Boulah on the bench every game
, Kromkamp not used). Can't find a balance in the midfield during the WC (too attacking, while the team was helping the shit defense out).
All that and yet he fails to see anything wrong with our and his WC peformance. It was an underwhelming below average: we played ugly and shit, kept our better players on the bench (Boulah, Kromkamp, RVN) and couldn't direct towards a win (portugal).
During a press conference, after he was asked to grade our WC campaign, he infamously gave himself a
7!!!!!!!
Now he anounced that RVN and Van Bomel don't have anything to look to in Oranje (that their careers in oranje are unofficialy over)!
Is he fucking retarded???
As long as he's our manager we will win fuck all. And we'll play very unatractive. What good is playing young players, if your selection is flawed and your playing policies are shit? None. We can look forward now to more years of Heitinga, Babel & friends. Oh joy.
Is it clear enough Blut?