Unbelievable

Yep. He gets caught for pace more already than he did a few years back. Still, playing alongside somebody capable of recoverign (Yanga-Mbiwa), I think he could still be useful by then. Shame it won't happen. Will be interesting to see what happens in the summer; I still can't see us letting him just walk off for free.

Never..

Picture seems to have been removed, what was it?

Krul concedes in ET: 1-1

Fucking midget..

Lens makes it 1-0 Holland

Oh Moussa

Maher should have scored again. Santon looking very shakey out there..

Aye, don't think he's been in Holland's half at all so far.

Maher should have scored. Santon properly owned by RvP in the build up..

Lovely seeing wor Davide in the Azzurri

Huh? I'm not, you are. Out here in the real world they haven't qualified for a World Cup since 2002 and for the Euros since 1984 (excluding 2000 where they were qualified by default by virtue of organising the tournament). Granted, their current crop looks talented, but I will have to see them reach a World Cup final before I conceed they've passed us in the football stakes.

Belgium ahead of Holland In all seriousness, that sounds like the mackems saying how good their squad is on paper. Football isn't played on paper. Belgium have some cracking players, but as a nation they just don't have a winning mentality. I think their Flemish vs Wallons attitude has a lot to do with that. They have a lot to prove on the pitch first before I consider them to be ahead of us.

WTF?

I hate international friendlies. So pointless.

Very much looking forward to seeing him play, hopefully vs Metalist next week.

I'm happy he seems and confident he will remain thoroughly professional on the pitch, but those statements are hardly befitting a club captain (again).

Yeah i agree i don't like the ratings and stat s***, how they calculate the ratings is beyond me. Objectively?

Transitional phase. And Anita can't even get a look-in. Too old/experienced for Van Gaal..

Number of caps (goals) of that Holland team: http://www.vi.nl/upload/045c0b59-e272-43e5-a5d0-2cb39cc5df3a_ned_ita.jpg

He apparently is according to some dutch news twitter accounts. This is the team apparently: Buffon; Abate, Barzagli, Ranocchia, Santon; De Rossi, Pirlo,Montolivo, Candreva, Balotelli, El Shaarawy Santon linking up with El Shaarawy Wow, looking at that Italy team this could get a bit embarrassing..

Both Feyenoord defenders. Janmaat is an average right back imho, Martins Indi is a rather promising central defender in the Bassong mould. The latter can also play left back.

They were, and there are a few injuries in the squad, but we've gone overboard here. Wouldn't be surprised to see Italy destory us with that lineup.

Just Van Gaal being an odd bastard.

That team man. Take RvP out and you've barely got 20 caps between them.. Is Clasie any good? Felt obliged to see how well he's faring after someone brought out the play on his name. Aye, he looks like he could be going places. Tenacious little central midfield player who is also decent technically.