It's got nothing to do with believing it or not , these are highly paid professionals representing their country they should do as asked by their manager. GUTLESS.
The manager shouldn't be giving them a choice. Van Gaal took the credit with the Krul thing so has to take the criticism for this... #blamethemanager
Davies = no thanks. Bony = he'd be a good squad player for us providing another option but I'd rather see us sign a better or younger player instead, preferably both Sneijder = I'd have loved us to have got Sneijder a couple of years ago or more but not now, he's best it.
looking forward to the beebs top of the table standings again this season coming up. wonder how far it will go down this time lol.
I think Bony would be a good 20 goals a year striker if he stays fit. Davies though. ...good god no. Is that the level of our ambition these days? I can see us p***ing the Suarez money up the wall at this rate on second rate, Aspas quality players.
On the penalties: **** superstition, this is a chance to reach the WC final, time for the best players to step up. It is cowardly, imo, to let someone else take the blame. All credit to Vlaar, he had a great game and was willing to be the fall guy if that's what it came to. Even though he missed, he can hold his head high. On Kuyt: he gave his usual honest display. Was fine on the right in the first half, but looked lost when out on the left in the second. He had to keep cutting in to try to find a cross with his right and they just didn't come off. And he's never had the pace to take people on. My anti-Utd bias might be influencing this thought- but perhaps the mighty LVG is not quite the tactical genius the Beeb and others are hoping for. And publicly blaming his players -even if it's true- is not the thing to do, imo. Well, at least Utd have a suitable hate-figure for next season, I just felt sorry for Hapless Dave. So back to normal in that sense, at least. P.S. Wrong thread for this, but it is discussed higher up.
"Arsenal fume as Alexis Sanchez deal delayed by Luis Suarez's Liverpool exit to Barcelona" Hah! Let's not sell him and really piss them off!
Can't the rumour mongers at least pretend we're looking at some good players? Arsenal (having signed Sanchez) are after Kheidira or Bender. Utd apparently have an infinite amount of money to spend and are after Ric Rodriguez and Vidal. Meanwhile we're going to sell our best player and sign... Ben Davies and Wilfred Bony. Just the WORST. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE.
the dutch v costa rica were: rvp robben sneidjer kuyt we do not know the fifth guy.. he was probably known but i don't know here. yesterday rvp was taken off the other 3 were exactly the same line up. so there was a direct swap of vlaar for RVP..... the others seems sequenced to me. In any event.... ok you win the toss, great, how do you decide who goes first is OPINION, just remember that. I myself do agree your best man should go first as you need to get the goal on the boad.. but equally sending the volunteer up first with less pressure makes sense. I think just personally players who refuse a pen are guys i just don't want on the pitch cos really kuyt might be gash and slow but the attitude and lack of fear means he'll try and create for you and be positive right throughout the 120mins as well. IMO only huntelaar is the unknown here. I would like to know if he was up 5th. if so really you can only as about georgino as a midfielder and the rest would be defenders after all the Dutch parked the bus. I feel argentina were no great shakes so the 5-3-2 line up was parking it in fear of messi IMO
would make sense, assuming we are serious about getting Moreno. i think we are trying to get cheaper options first sadly.
