Nothing wrong with students, but their imagination is almost as limited as their budget. They want to eat a cheap steak and then drink ten gallons of beer at a pub where they play either middle of the road rock music or tacky sing-along Dutch stuff (for cult reasons) - and that's about it.

Hey! I ...

Groningen is cool. Kind of detached from the "drukte" in the Randstad and doing it's own thing.

Interesting that you mentioned Expatica, I have read some of the discussion on there. While much of it is hysterical, some (few) of the points on there are valid.

I think the biggest problem people have when they come to Holland is dealing with the disappointment. They build Holland up in their ...

I was never good at jokes.

As long as Stekelenburg stays injured we should be okay.

It was meant as humour, not as "holland is shit". I'm sorry you took it that way.

Yep, Paris, Barcelona and Berlin as well. But we're talking about the Netherlands right now...

Perhaps I was being a little too subtle.

If Mike Zonneveld of NAC is as good as he is in CM then buy him.

What about that guy who plays at ADO Den Haag, you know, the American with the Irish name, I heard he's a decent left-back.

Do you think Marseille would let us have Taiwo? Perhaps we can swap him for Sneijder and Harry.

Antwerp and Brussels are nice.

He was better than Joey Didulica. And Joey Didulica was better than Grim and Stekelenburg.

But who got the nod? Grim and Stekelenburg. Lobont and Didulica should have been our number 1 & 2 keepers. But the staff seems to love Dutch keepers.

Thanks for being loyal and always wanting to play Bogdan. You were better than Fred Grim, you were better than Joey Didulica, you are better than Maarten Stekelenburg and you are better than Hans Vonk. I hope you go on to prove to the Ajax staff what a bunch of idiots they are.

I'll never forget ...

My name is Bryan (surprise) and I am from a small island in the eastern Atlantic. I lived in Diemen from the ages of four to seven, from 1986-1989. You could see De Meer stadium from our house (there was no A10 motorway then) and we always knew when Utrecht, Feyenoord or ADO were in town, because ...

Ah yes, Mellon Collie was the one I sold on Koninginnedag, not Siamese Dream.

As you were.

It's mostly filler, if you ask me.

I sold it on Koninginnedag for 10 guilders two months after I bought it.

it's great that pienaar is number 10 and sneijder gets the cold shoulder
that made my day

But Bogdan Lobont number 26? :redcard: Woudln't it have been easier to keep the same keeper numbers and play whoever who is in form in goal? There's no need to rub Lobont's nose in the shit. He's been trampled ...

Ajax are dumb to sell him at all.

At the moment the board are trying to flog our best goalkeeper for magic beans and are giving our best midfielder the cold shoulder.

It doesn't get much dumber.

In fairness though, they did manage to flog Andy van der Meijde for a tidy sum. But that was more down to the stupidity of Inter than the business acumen of the Ajax board.

I once saw a documentary about Ajax when they went to the stock market. ING bank was interested in investing heavily in Ajax ...

don't forget, van eijden gets a big bonus if ajax turns a profit

it doesn't matter how big the profit is, as long as it's positive. so van eijden couldn't care less if ajax make a big profit by holding on the the best players and doing well in the champions league, he'd rather make a profit and ...

If Pienaar isn't one of the best players in this squad then who is...

Maybe they're trying to get rid of him.

Fucking fuckers.

Van der Vaart's gone: give Pienaar some of his salary.

So Blind is signing old players who were never very good in the first place huh?

Why am I getting a sense of déjà vu here?

What about Andy Johnson?

Does anybody know if the Ajax board, in all their wisdom, managed to negotiate a sell-on clause with Juve?

10% of 70 million would still be 7 million that could come in handy.

Still the worst deal ever though. You'd have thought they'd have learned something from the Chivu rip-off fiasco the year ...

I never got OK Computer either. So whiney and directionless. Perhaps that's why teenagers were into it? I liked The Bends and Pablo Honey, but hated OK Computer when it came out. Most people discovered Radiohead with that CD - for me it's the CD that turned me off Radiohead. Ever since then they've ...

Liverpool haven't even attempted to win the English league for 15 years, they don't deserve to be in the Champions League, let alone win the thing. They are trying to make a mockery of football.

Forza Milan.

Good to see somebody mentioning The Pixies. There would have been no Nirvana without The Pixies. Even Kurt himself said that Smells Like Teen Spirit was just his own attempt to make a song as good as Debaser .

To me Nirvana are overrated eenheidsworst. (unity sausage)

My favourite cover is Mano ...