@ChrisD_13 Sommer wilde een langjarig contract wat Ajax hem (terecht) niet aanbiedt. Bovendien hoog in de salarisboom en (al) 37 (3 jaar ouder dan de betere Ter Stegen).
Ik snap de overweging heel goed en dat Ajax daarom vroeg is afgehaakt
NIEUWS: Sivert #Mannsverk op weg naar Sparta Praag.
🇨🇿 kampioen van Tsjechië wil Noor jaar huren met optie tot koop. (Ook nog minimale kans op definitieve verkoop).
🇮🇹 Lecce heeft eveneens interesse.
✅ Praag heeft voorkeur speler.
https://t.co/Lmrw8oLzyG
@berlinflaneur@WCWLion Das stimmt wohl (der Kampagne) aber die zahlen sind auch von VI mehr oder weniger so genannt (Tim van Duijn gestern). Sehr vertrauenswürdig. Ich kann der Tweet von Mike nicht retweeten aber hier ein Bild:
@WCWLion@berlinflaneur Mike Verweij (Telegraaf) hat kürzlich die Zahl genannt. Alle Mislintat Käufen kriegen einen CL Binus. Glaub dies war 30% aber den Zahl bin ich mir grad nicht sicher. Muss ich suchen. Henderson hatte nich viel mehr als Akpom. Gloukh wird für €1.8 netto, Itakura zwischen €2m-3m
It still seems crazy to think that a side graced by Johan Cruyff, Johan Neeskens, Johnny Rep, Ruud Krol, Rob Rensenbrink and Ari Haan didn’t win the 1974 World Cup. Writing their names is to list footballing royalty, hearing their names is to listen to poetry in motion. Those Dutch Total footballers were more than a team; they were a philosophy made flesh and they thrilled the world.
Cases will be advanced on behalf of Hungary 1954, France 1982 and arguably 2006, Brazil 1982 and 1998, but that wonderful Dutch side of Cruyff and Neeskens is surely the best team never to have won a World Cup. They didn’t win in 1974 or 1978 (shorn of Cruyff) but they won a place in countless hearts for the joy, technique, invention and adventure of their football. Those Dutch runners-up are more lovingly remembered than some actually crowned world champions.
And now the great Neeskens has gone, passing away at 73. “With Johan Neeskens, the Dutch and international football world loses a legend,” the Dutch FA said. So true. The loss will obviously be most keenly felt in the Netherlands, where Neeskens won three European Cups with Ajax, the first at right-back (at Wembley), then central midfield, and scored 17 times in 49 appearances for the national team. Neeskens will be mourned at Barcelona where he teamed up again with Cruyff and won the Cup-Winners’ Cup. Fans adored him for his style on and off the field. Neeskens will also be remembered in New York where he shone for Cosmos over five seasons.
The Dutch are right, the game globally has lost a legend. Neeskens felt special to so many outside his native land because he embodied the way the game really should be played. His understanding with Cruyff was telepathic, his timing of runs expert and the finesse of his finish exquisite. Neeskens scored goals that took the breath away and he scored them in big moments, the trademark of the greats.
There wasn’t much football on TV in the 70s so players seemed cloaked in even more mystique and majesty when they appeared on our screens at the 1974 World Cup in particular. There was Neeskens caressing the ball right against Brazil n Dortmund, and greeting the return from Cruyff with a stretching finish lifted over Emerson Leao, Brazil’s goalkeeper. And on to that final in Munich. For those watching in black and white, the Dutch were the ones with the ball. They toyed with West Germany for a while.
When Neeskens slammed that early penalty past Sepp Maier, after a zigzagging Cruyff was chopped down by Uli Hoeness, it seemed that the poets in orange would simply obliterate the pragmatists. Whatever their reason for wanting to humiliate the Germans, whether dating back to the war and the occupation, the Dutch got distracted and lost. Yet Total football was celebrated. Neeskens’ name was enhanced.
At France 98, I went up to La Turbie, Monaco’s training base, where Guus Hiddink was putting his Dutch players through their paces. I was there to talk to Jaap Stam, who was moving to Manchester United, and he spoke well. The trip was made even more worthwhile by the sight of Hiddink’s assistant coaches - Ronald Koeman, Frank Rijkaard and Neeskens. One imagined the staff five-a-sides were competitive. Try getting the ball off them first.
Neeskens was elegant but also tough as a player, riding tackles as he raced from box to box. The memory of his goals and medals will endure and the name Neeskens will always be cherished as an emblem of enlightened football. Total football, total legend. Rest In Peace.
@bart_sanders Wat heeft Vos dan laten zien dat hij meer waard is dan €5m + doorverkoop..? Ik vind zijn prestaties tot dusver erg mager, en €5m voor een onbewezen jonge speler over wie gezegd wordt dat de mentaliteit niet goed is niet “bizar laag”