Feyenoord 2007/2008

Pity all the return of the dragon posters had copyright.

Lee's back.

Bruins is op tijd fit voor Rotterdame derby







Feyenoord-trainer Bert van Marwijk is optimistisch over de aanstaande rentree van Luigi Bruins. De middenvelder kampt al weken met een hamstringblessure.

Bruins kende een uitstekende start van het seizoen, maar raakte vervolgens geblesseerd. 'Luigi Bruins is nu dicht bij een rentree', zei Van Marwijk na afloop van de wedstrijd tegen NEC in Nijmegen. 'Misschien al op tweede Kerstdag tegen Sparta Rotterdam.'

Van Marwijk verder: 'De selectie komt weer op peil. Bovendien hebben we in een voor ons moeilijke periode de schade toch beperkt weten te houden. We staan op één punt van de koploper en doen nog steeds mee.'




Awesome news!! Hope we sign some new players as well, I prefer something exotics!!

Don't think they will risk Bruins against Sparta.

It's a very easy gameplan for Feyenoord, if Jaggy isn't fit exploit Polak who is $h!t defensivly. We have a pretty decent defensive midfield but vBueren is suspended. (That's why we defianatly wanted to play against NAC). Hope Kaita plays, he can nurture deGuzman. Freire certainly can't.

You shouldn't have to much problems with our strikers, although when Duplan is matchfit he could run circles around Lucius.

Since 1888 wrote:Don't think they will risk Bruins against Sparta.

It's a very easy gameplan for Feyenoord, if Jaggy isn't fit exploit Polak who is $h!t defensivly. We have a pretty decent defensive midfield but vBueren is suspended. (That's why we defianatly wanted to play against NAC). Hope Kaita plays, he can nurture deGuzman. Freire certainly can't.

You shouldn't have to much problems with our strikers, although when Duplan is matchfit he could run circles around Lucius.

Don't think so either. Don't mind risk Hofs, but would save Bruins for our last match of 2007: away v Heerenveen.

Van Bueren being suspended is great news for us indeed.

All your players should be able to run rings around Lucius. Hope he has a fireworks accident.

vBueren is honestly the most underrated player of the Eredivisie.

Since 1888 wrote:vBueren is honestly the most underrated player of the Eredivisie.

I rate him too. Smart player.

There are some very nice videos on the NOS Studio Sport site. I particulary like the 2000 one with Boukhari scoring the winner.

What about Zeefuik of PSV?

Pity, we did not get Rukavina would have been a good signing in a position, in which we need strengthening.

Think it's positive we're looking to strengthen ourselves, so apprently we have some cash, hope we have a plan B for right fullback (Silva, De Roover or Zuiverloon would do imo).

http://www.vi.nl/NieuwsItem/RukavinaVerkiestDortmundBovenFeyenoord.htm

Already been named the new Romario/Rooney, South African Kermit Erasmus has signed a pro-contract with Feyenoord. (he had already signed a precontract.) He will be able to play as off next season when he turns 18.

Can't wait to see him play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Erasmus

Erasmus coming home

Please, please let him be good so we can enjoy the most brilliant name in the history of football some more

Axeslammer wrote:Erasmus coming home

Please, please let him be good so we can enjoy the most brilliant name in the history of football some more

Good he ends up in the right city. By the way his middlename is Romeo.

would love to meet his parents

Township talent pitches in


Ahead of the 2010 World Cup, South Africa's football academies are turning their attention to the nation's up-and-coming players, says Andrew Meldrum

Wednesday January 3, 2007
Guardian Unlimited


Cape Town's World Cup stadium will overlook Table Mountain

Plucked by scouts from a dusty football pitch in a rough and tumble neighbourhood of South Africa's Port Elizabeth, 16-year-old Kermit Erasmus now attends the country's leading football academy.
Erasmus's dream is to blaze his way into the national team when South Africa hosts the World Cup in 2010. His hopes are not so far-fetched. In recent weeks he scored a hat-trick playing for the Under-17s side against Zimbabwe.

The goals are already the stuff of legend. Erasmus was on the bench for the first half but when sent on he quickly drove the ball into the net three times, giving the South African side a 5-2 win.

Stocky Erasmus is being compared to Wayne Rooney and Brazilian star Romario. "There's the same low centre of gravity, the same nuggety power and the same cold eye for a goal," says Luke Alfred, sports writer for South Africa's Sunday Times.
"I want to play in 2010 for South Africa, for sure," said Erasmus. "I know it will take hard work and discipline. Also I will pray a lot and focus on my goal. I know I can't do it by myself. I must work with my teammates, my coaches and my family. And that's what I'm going to do."

South Africa needs many more stories of raw, talented youths coming up from the townships and being trained to play against the world's best footballers in 2010.

The country is buckling down to develop both a stellar national team and the infrastructure needed to host the World Cup.

"Like a bolt from the blue, South Africa's 2010 World Cup tournament will surprise the world with its accomplishment," said President Thabo Mbeki last month when he met with Fifa officials, who endorsed the country's preparations as on track. Mbeki vowed the police force would be significantly boosted to tame the country's high rates of violent crime. The stadiums, hotels and transport routes will be strictly patrolled.

Having already successfully hosted the cricket and rugby world cups, South Africa is now concentrating on staging the world's greatest football tournament. Five new stadiums will be built in Cape Town, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Durban and Port Elizabeth. The Johannesburg stadium and four other stadiums will get major overhauls to bring them up to World Cup standards. The total cost is estimated at 15bn rand (about £1.2bn) but that figure is expected to spiral.

Critics say the funds would be better used to improve basic services to South Africa's poor black population. But World Cup supporters argue the money invested will reap enormous dividends for the country's burgeoning tourism industry. The Cape Town stadium is planned for a spectacular site in Green Point, overlooking the ocean with a backdrop of the famed Table Mountain.

But some local residents are not happy about an 80,000-seat stadium in their neighbourhood and threaten to hold up construction with court cases. There is no time for any delay and South Africa's World Cup organisers say they will take the stadium away from Cape Town if ground is not broken this month.

Another pressing challenge is to improve South Africa's relatively lacklustre national side, which has not qualified for recent World Cups. Former Brazil coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, has been hired to build a team that can compete with the world's best. "We need to go into the townships and find the talent there. That should improve 100-fold because that is where our best resources are," said Ray Winfield, manager of the Super Sport Football Academy.

That's where centre forward Erasmus comes in. Having already piled up goals in the Under-17s, there is now talk of him playing for the Under-20s team.

If he can continue scoring among the bigger, more experienced players, then he may be well on his way to his dream: scoring for South Africa in the 2010 World Cup.

The new Romario and Rooney..in one!! Usually that are the players that don't make it! If people say it will be the new....they usually end up as failures.

I hope he can become the new Erasmus!! If he really becomes as good as they say, we should name a bridge after him!

We'll see when he starts playing for us, which isn't until next season when he turns 18.

Hope for some more signings that are useful right away. So far this transfer window sucks compared to the previous one.

Yeah very lame!

If we cant even spend 3 million then things are fucked up! But we really need a striker! Hope he still comes.

I've heard that Ekramy won't be going to the ACN. Do any of you know for sure yet?

EMP wrote:I've heard that Ekramy won't be going to the ACN. Do any of you know for sure yet?

he's recovering from an injury.


We intend to loan him to some other club so he can get more playing time. Very talented goalie me thinks.

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Apart from Kermit Erasmus, we also signed Philani Khwela from South African Supersport United (with whom we have some kind of cooperation deal).

Lee has been dropped from the South Korean team, which is good news we wouldn't want to miss our superstar

Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee!

De Cler & fer have the flu, hope they get well in time for the match v PSv, we can't miss De Cler for sure.

De Guzman wrote:

EMP wrote:I've heard that Ekramy won't be going to the ACN. Do any of you know for sure yet?

he's recovering from an injury.


We intend to loan him to some other club so he can get more playing time. Very talented goalie me thinks.
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Apart from Kermit Erasmus, we also signed Philani Khwela from South African Supersport United (with whom we have some kind of cooperation deal).

Lee has been dropped from the South Korean team, which is good news we wouldn't want to miss our superstar

Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee! Lee!

De Cler & fer have the flu, hope they get well in time for the match v PSv, we can't miss De Cler for sure.

When I was in Rotterdam I went to a Feyenoord training session and met him there. He seemed recovered from injury. They weren't going easy on him. He definitely wants first team football, but I got the ipression he wants to stay withyou as well. How old is Henk Timmer? How long are their contracts?

Timmer is 36. he has a contract until the end of the season, Feyenoord will most likely extend it with 1 season.

Ekaramy is 24 and has a contract until the end of the 2010 season.

Pim Doesburg our goalie-trainer is a Spartan, was very good himself & good at training too & indeed makes the keepers worrk very hard.

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Feyenoord have sold defender Karim Saidi to Sivasspor, the joint-leaders of Turkish League.

edit: f@ck I'm getting Alzheimer. Patrick Lodewijks has taken overas keeprs trainer.

Zware opgave Feyenoord
Door SJOERD MOSSOU

ROTTERDAM - Met een lichte training trapte Feyenoord het jubileumjaar 2008 gisteren af, in de wetenschap dat januari een cruciale en loodzware maand wordt.

Zaterdag wacht de topper tegen medekoploper PSV en ook daarna is het geen moment rustig.

Na het bekerduel met SV Deurne op dinsdag 15 januari volgen wedstrijden tegen achtereenvolgens Excelsior, FC Twente, FC Groningen, AZ en Ajax. Omdat er ook veel midweeks wordt gespeeld, past Bert van Marwijk zijn trainingsritme aan. „We zullen de komende tijd wat korter en feller trainen,” aldus de coach, die bewust rustig begon.

„Een aantal jongens heeft er lange reizen opzitten. Lee is in Korea geweest, Bahia in Brazilië en Makaay was op vakantie in New York. Deze training was vooral bedoeld om weer even op gang te komen. Maandag trainen we twee keer.”

Conditioneel hoeft Van Marwijk niet veel te investeren, zijn spelers hadden slechts zes dagen vrijaf. Volgend jaar is er weer een wat langere winterstop, tot tevredenheid van de coach én de meeste spelers.

Gisteren ontbraken Tim de Cler en de jonge Leroy Fer op het oefenveld naast de Kuip. Beide spelers waren ziek. Kevin Hofland deed wel weer voluit mee, nadat hij in het laatste duel met SC Heerenveen geblesseerd uitviel. Verwacht wordt dat de verdediger gewoon kan spelen tegen zijn oude club PSV.

Versterkingen vielen er nog niet te begroeten bij Feyenoord en de kans bestaat dat die er in de huidige transferperiode ook niet komen. De Rotterdamse club heeft een beknopte lijst samengesteld met potentiële nieuwe spelers uit het hogere segment. De eerste prioriteit heeft het middenveld. Blijkt geen van de gewenste spelers echter haalbaar, dan maakt Van Marwijk het seizoen af met de huidige selectie.

Feyenoord begint aan 2008 in het besef dat een landstitel haalbaar is. De vernieuwde Rotterdamse ploeg presteert wisselvallig en telt nog volop tekortkomingen, maar het perspectief van PSV, AZ en Ajax is minstens zo troebel. Constante factor in Rotterdam is de thuisvorm; in de Kuip kreeg het pas twee goals tegen en hield het zeven keer de nul. Bovendien is Roy Makaay vrijwel wekelijks goed voor een goal of een assist.

Pijnpunt is het falen tegen fysiek sterke ploegen. Een sterke middenvelder met loopvermogen is wenselijk. Van Marwijk: „Eigenlijk kunnen we in elke linie een versterking gebruiken. Maar omdat we ons geld maar één keer uit kunnen geven, moeten we gerichte keuzes maken.”

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Bring Engelaar back home!

Good we're trying to get Silva, really rate him , hope he can force a transfer like that diving c**t Suarez did... Can't wait for Axe's reaction if we land him...

Was yesterday on TV, the Grunn chairman called and said he won't let Silva go...the c**ts!!

Fey wrote:Was yesterday on TV, the Grunn chairman called and said he won't let Silva go...the c**ts!!

yep saw that, but maybe Silva can 'enforce' a transfer

De Guzman wrote:

Fey wrote:Was yesterday on TV, the Grunn chairman called and said he won't let Silva go...the c**ts!!

yep saw that, but maybe Silva can 'enforce' a transfer

Good to see you're as much a bunch of c**ts as those from Amsterdam

I've always said there's no difference between those two clubs : soulless plastic mercenary trophy hunters the lot of you !

I'm back to cheering for PSV and AZ once more...

Axe, distinguish between a (succesful) WUM-attempt and reality

De Guzman wrote:rate him , hope he can force a transfer like that diving c**t Suarez did... Can't wait for Axe's reaction if we land him...

You can say a lot about Feyenoord, but we are 1 of the few clubs that actually still has a soul. Even the hardcore Ajax fans wish their club was like ours when it comes to soul.

We are not arrogant bastards named after some Greek guy, who changed their club in a stockmarket listed company. Neither are we named part of a company Philips, who sold their soul by moving to Amsterdam. AZ completely sold their soul to loanshark Scheringa (DSB-stadium, etc...)... No one can buy/own Feyenoord.

UIT EIGEN KRACHT VOOTGEBRACHT: FEYENOORD ROTTERDAM

Axeslammer wrote:

De Guzman wrote:

Fey wrote:Was yesterday on TV, the Grunn chairman called and said he won't let Silva go...the c**ts!!

yep saw that, but maybe Silva can 'enforce' a transfer

Good to see you're as much a bunch of c**ts as those from Amsterdam

I've always said there's no difference between those two clubs : soulless plastic mercenary trophy hunters the lot of you !

I'm back to cheering for PSV and AZ once more...

It was kind of a joke towards you...

We are a very honest club..unlike

FC Groningen wijst bod van Ajax op Silva af


FC Groningen heeft een bod van Ajax op Bruno Silva afgewezen. 'Niemand gaat weg', zegt algemeen directeur Hans Nijland resoluut in de nieuwe Voetbal International.

Groningen heeft zich deze winterstop een lastige partij getoond om mee te onderhandelen. 'Ik ben trots op de positie die we de afgelopen maanden hebben veroverd', aldus Nijland, 'maar dat moeten we wel vasthouden. Daarvoor hebben we iedereen nodig.'

Groningen heeft dan ook een bod van Ajax op Bruno Silva afgewezen. De 27-jarige rechtsback uit Uruguay zou ook in de belangstelling staan van Fiorentina. Nijland: 'Die club heeft zich in elk geval niet bij ons gemeld, maar ze kunnen zich de moeite besparen. Bruno blijft bij ons.'



The only offered 2 million for him!! What a cheap bastards those jews are with all that money!

Fey wrote:
It was kind of a joke towards you...

I'm sorry, but when it comes to poaching our good players I don't have any sense of humor at all.....and I don't trust anyone either

I still don't think it's funny

Fey wrote:
The only offered 2 million for him!! What a cheap bastards those jews are with all that money!

It's like the Suarez story all over again !

They come in with a ridiculously low bid, destroy the harmony, hope for a revolting player who they can then get on the cheap.

I'd say Silva is worth 5M in the current market....and I still think we shouldn't sell him for that amount.


Hope anyone who tries to steal Silva from us get relegated

Axe, offering money for a player is what all clubs including Groningen do, there's nothing wrong with that. You also bought Silva & Suarez somewhere.

We offered you money for a player, you said no. We go home dissappointed. Nothing wrong with that.

Agree Silva is worth far more than 2M.

Feyenoord are not gonna sign anyone this winter...

If we even can't afford to pay 3m. then things are still quite bad..

Oh well it were a funny 6 months again..at least we are longer in a title race then Liverpool

Fey wrote:
Oh well it were a funny 6 months again..at least we are longer in a title race then Liverpool

?!

As long as Makaay stays fit you're still front runners for the title...