Mclaren is a horrible manager though... good coach but should definitely not be the man in charge.

Damn, we're firewalled from youtube at work and I would LOVE to see that... anyone know if it's posted anywhere it's not linked to youtube?

Good post. It seems fairly evident that there's a lot of dead wood in the squad to be rid of, it will motivate the young players that they could break into the first eleven if there were less players ahead of them. I'm sure MVB will be up to this task, as soon as he has finished recruiting the playe...

That's possibly the most unlikely thing ever...

Maybe he doesn't want to lose face in the Spanish media? Either way, he's incredibly deluded, and will be lucky to get any playing time this season.

Impressive... It's rare these days to find a modern footballer who goes beyond the usual press quotes and platitudes.

I thought this guy looked good in Euro 2008, a move to Celtic for EUR5m just fell through...

http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament ... index.html

Can we just get him to call himself 'Papa' like a Brazilian player?

In my ignorance of Greek/ Cypriot pronounciation that would make life much easier.

Am probably being blind here, but I can't see him on the AEK Athens wiki page?

...solid, reliable defender, great work ethic and (very important) he talks a lot, coaches his fellow defenders. He can organize a defense. The lack of such a character was perhaps Ajax's key problem in defense last season: Stekelenburg is a bit of a zombie and none of the other defenders did any c...

You're right, it's Colin all over again. Loovens is a decent defender for the championship, but he's not Ajax quality, by any means... Skjelbred is also linked with Newcastle and Blackburn, but the coaching at those clubs is way below what a young player could get at Ajax. Money or development? Must...

I think he's suffering from having had (along with a lot of other Barcelona players) a poor 07/08 season. Wasn't helped by the fact that he didn't get many opportunities and the coach didn't show a lot of confidence in him, but he didn't play up to his standards. He's obviously not the Stam 'brick w...

And btw, my bet for most likely club would be Valencia, if David Villa moves to one of the bigger clubs. Not in the CL though, which is good for us...

Hi all, first post on this forum... I actually now think that there is a very good chance KJH will stay in Amsterdam, now that Van Basten is at the helm and he has been made captain. I think he'll be convinced to stay for one more season, after which he'll still only be 26 and have his best years st...