Chrissy couldn't agree on RD's plans and I pretty much predicted that Riga wouldn't - if my fears about RD came to pass - I don't know Bob Peeters, but he must have signed up. Aren't some of you optimists even slightly curious as to what bit/s they couldn't sign up to?
Chrissy couldn't agree on RD's plans and I pretty much predicted that Riga wouldn't - if my fears came to pass - I don't know Bob Peeters, but he must have signed up. Aren't some of you optimists even slightly curious as to what bit/s they couldn't sign up to?
Now slightly concerned that it's being reported Riga couldn't agree on future plans with Duchatelet. I'm Jumping to conclusions but surely that can only be with regards to recruitment and retention ?
I doubt that Peeters is a yes man but it's more than likely now that we are going to have a head coach with little or no input in player acquisition. As asked before. Who is doing that ?
Where does it say that they couldn't agree on future plans , as far as I can see rd just didn't offer him a new contract.
After failing to agree on the club's future plans with owner Roland Duchatelet, Riga - whose contract was only until the end of the season - is leaving The Valley.
The manager (head coach) kept us up in the league. He did fairly well here at the Valley. He was liked by both the fans and the players. Almost everyone wanted him to stay. He himself wanted to stay as well. Yet the owner decided to replace him with someone else. Has there ever been a case like this in the world of football before? I just read somewhere that Paul Lambert, Sam Allardyce and perhaps Alan Pardew are staying where they're, all of whom I thought would be sacked only a few days ago. The more I think about our own case, the harder I find it to believe.
The manager (head coach) kept us up in the league. He did fairly well here at the Valley. He was liked by both the fans and the players. Almost everyone wanted him to stay. He himself wanted to stay as well. Yet the owner decided to replace him with someone else. Has there ever been a case like this in the world of football before? I just read somewhere that Paul Lambert, Sam Allardyce and perhaps Alan Pardew are staying where they're, all of whom I thought would be sacked only a few days ago. The more I think about our own case, the harder I find it to believe.
Now slightly concerned that it's being reported Riga couldn't agree on future plans with Duchatelet. I'm Jumping to conclusions but surely that can only be with regards to recruitment and retention ?
I doubt that Peeters is a yes man but it's more than likely now that we are going to have a head coach with little or no input in player acquisition. As asked before. Who is doing that ?
Where does it say that they couldn't agree on future plans , as far as I can see rd just didn't offer him a new contract.
After failing to agree on the club's future plans with owner Roland Duchatelet, Riga - whose contract was only until the end of the season - is leaving The Valley.
But that's not what he's agent have told sky sports but yet that's their headline. ? And it's not what Riga told the Belgian paper. In fact Riga said he's dissapointed not to have got the job as if he wasn't offered it .
i follow football in general for along time and started following charlton and this forums as a reader since RD took over the club.
As for Bob Peeters, i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player. I'm reading the same kind of posts that i have been reading when Jose Riga was appointed as a manager afetr chris powell was sacked.
Just as Jose Riga, Bob Peeters is a very intelligent guy; RD seems to like to work with intelligent people.
After Bob Peeters became champions in the belgian Pro League with Lierse in 1997, he played 7 years in the Netherlands, after that he went to milwall. In his prime as a player (1997 -2003), he was also a Belgian International player. At Millwall and also his teams after that, he never reached his best level, because he had alot of injuries constantly.
After his career as a player, he worked mainly as a football analyst and commentator for Belgian TV.
As a coach he started as youth coach at AA Gent, one of the bigger teams in Belgium. He coached cercle brugge after that, a small team in belgium with a low budget and he did perform very very well with them, playing attractive football with limited players. After two years at cercle brugge, AA Gent called him to rplace their sacked manager. But the team in gent was so rotten that Bob couldn't turn stuff around, and he git sacked, but his successor coulnd't trun it around neither. So Gent used like 4 managers in one season, but basicly the managers weren't at fault but the club itself - also the players didn't egt along with eachother at Gent.
This year he took over waasland Beveren, when they were bound for relegation. Bob came in when they had 8 points out of 36 after 12 games and they were lagging way behind on a safe spot to avoid relegation. He wanted to try and turn the team into a totaaly different playing style (they were playing ultradefensive but still lost every game) , and the first month he only managed 1/12 (including three away matches against good teams) . But after that the team picked up what Bob was trying to teach them and they started winning, even against the big teams in the belgian pro league. After the team had 9/48 they only lost ONCE in the last 12 games (6W - 5D - 1L), getting 23/36 and saving themselves from relegation against all the odds.
Bob is really considered as one of the most promising young belgian managers around, and he was formed according to the "new belgian school of training" which focusses on fast combiantion play and ball possesion (belgium FA started doing this 10 years ago with ALL youth teams from all clubs, after they failed misarably in wc and ec qualification, and since adapting this methods, is producing tons of quality, technically skilled players lately).
NO WAY, Bob will be a "yes man" to RD, he is way to intelligent and proud for that. In fact RD is way to smart himself to have just people who lick his boots around him.
You will also find him very communicative, FUNNY (in a really good way, he has an excellent sense of humour in press interviews), intelligent and 110% committed. Bob is a great person and personality with the brains and football knowledge that is needed to succeed.
I don't know if Bob will produce the results all charlton fans want to see, but he is definately is capable of delivering. I hope he will do great at Charlton.
i follow football in general for along time and started following charlton and this forums as a reader since RD took over the club.
As for Bob Peeters, i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player. I'm reading the same kind of posts that i have been reading when Jose Riga was appointed as a manager afetr chris powell was sacked.
Just as Jose Riga, Bob Peeters is a very intelligent guy; RD seems to like to work with intelligent people.
After Bob Peeters became champions in the belgian Pro League with Lierse in 1997, he played 7 years in the Netherlands, after that he went to milwall. In his prime as a player (1997 -2003), he was also a Belgian International player. At Millwall and also his teams after that, he never reached his best level, because he had alot of injuries constantly.
After his career as a player, he worked mainly as a football analyst and commentator for Belgian TV.
As a coach he started as youth coach at AA Gent, one of the bigger teams in Belgium. He coached cercle brugge after that, a small team in belgium with a low budget and he did perform very very well with them, playing attractive football with limited players. After two years at cercle brugge, AA Gent called him to rplace their sacked manager. But the team in gent was so rotten that Bob couldn't turn stuff around, and he git sacked, but his successor coulnd't trun it around neither. So Gent used like 4 managers in one season, but basicly the managers weren't at fault but the club itself - also the players didn't egt along with eachother at Gent.
This year he took over waasland Beveren, when they were bound for relegation. Bob came in when they had 8 points out of 36 after 12 games and they were lagging way behind on a safe spot to avoid relegation. He wanted to try and turn the team into a totaaly different playing style (they were playing ultradefensive but still lost every game) , and the first month he only managed 1/12 (including three away matches against good teams) . But after that the team picked up what Bob was trying to teach them and they started winning, even against the big teams in the belgian pro league. After the team had 9/48 they only lost ONCE in the last 12 games (6W - 5D - 1L), getting 23/36 and saving themselves from relegation against all the odds.
Bob is really considered as one of the most promising belgian managers around, and he was formed acoording to the "new belgian school of training" which focusses on fast combiantion play and ball possesion (belgium FA started doing this 10 years ago with ALL youth teams from all clubs, after they failed misarably in wc and ec qualification, and since adapting this methods, is producing tons of quality, technically skilled players lately).
NO WAY, Bob will be a "yes man" to RD, he is way to intelligent and proud for that. In fact RD is way to smart himself to have just people who lick his boots around him.
You will also find him very communicate, FUNNY (in a really good way), intelligent and 110% committed. Bob is a great person and personality with the brains and football knowledge that is needed to succeed.
I don't know if Bob will produce the results all charlton fans want to see, but he is definately is capable of delivering. I hope he will do great at Charlton.
i follow football in general for along time and started following charlton and this forums as a reader since RD took over the club.
As for Bob Peeters, i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player. I'm reading the same kind of posts that i have been reading when Jose Riga was appointed as a manager afetr chris powell was sacked.
Just as Jose Riga, Bob Peeters is a very intelligent guy; RD seems to like to work with intelligent people.
After Bob Peeters became champions in the belgian Pro League with Lierse in 1997, he played 7 years in the Netherlands, after that he went to milwall. In his prime as a player (1997 -2003), he was also a Belgian International player. At Millwall and also his teams after that, he never reached his best level, because he had alot of injuries constantly.
After his career as a player, he worked mainly as a football analyst and commentator for Belgian TV.
As a coach he started as youth coach at AA Gent, one of the bigger teams in Belgium. He coached cercle brugge after that, a small team in belgium with a low budget and he did perform very very well with them, playing attractive football with limited players. After two years at cercle brugge, AA Gent called him to rplace their sacked manager. But the team in gent was so rotten that Bob couldn't turn stuff around, and he git sacked, but his successor coulnd't trun it around neither. So Gent used like 4 managers in one season, but basicly the managers weren't at fault but the club itself - also the players didn't egt along with eachother at Gent.
This year he took over waasland Beveren, when they were bound for relegation. Bob came in when they had 8 points out of 36 after 12 games and they were lagging way behind on a safe spot to avoid relegation. He wanted to try and turn the team into a totaaly different playing style (they were playing ultradefensive but still lost every game) , and the first month he only managed 1/12 (including three away matches against good teams) . But after that the team picked up what Bob was trying to teach them and they started winning, even against the big teams in the belgian pro league. After the team had 9/48 they only lost ONCE in the last 12 games (6W - 5D - 1L), getting 23/36 and saving themselves from relegation against all the odds.
Bob is really considered as one of the most promising young belgian managers around, and he was formed according to the "new belgian school of training" which focusses on fast combiantion play and ball possesion (belgium FA started doing this 10 years ago with ALL youth teams from all clubs, after they failed misarably in wc and ec qualification, and since adapting this methods, is producing tons of quality, technically skilled players lately).
NO WAY, Bob will be a "yes man" to RD, he is way to intelligent and proud for that. In fact RD is way to smart himself to have just people who lick his boots around him.
You will also find him very communicative, FUNNY (in a really good way, he has an excellent sense of humour in press interviews), intelligent and 110% committed. Bob is a great person and personality with the brains and football knowledge that is needed to succeed.
I don't know if Bob will produce the results all charlton fans want to see, but he is definately is capable of delivering. I hope he will do great at Charlton.
I'm very encouraged by that. Thank you for posting. If Peeters comes in then he gets my support. I look forward to watching the style of football you mention.
thanks @byl we appreciate your input, but i don't think you are right on some of your stats.
According to the results on soccerway, Waasland won 1, Drew 4, Lost 4 of their last 9 games, with all 4 defeats being the last 4 games. Not the (6w 5d 1defeat) you suggest.
At Cercle Brugge they were an established mid-table team, finishing (4th, 9th, 9th) in the seasons before he arrived, and then finished bottom in his third season.
At Gent, you said the team was so rotten that no one could turn it round. But the manager after Peeters (Victor Fernandez) DID turn it round, as they went on a run of 15 games winning 10, drawing 3 and losing 2.
He may well be a good, intelligent coach, but i don't think what you posted above tells the whole story accurately.
thanks @byl we appreciate your input, but i don't think you are right on some of your stats.
According to the results on soccerway, Waasland won 1, Drew 4, Lost 4 of their last 9 games, with all 4 defeats being the last 4 games. Not the (6w 5d 1defeat) you suggest.
At Cercle Brugge they were an established mid-table team, finishing (4th, 9th, 9th) in the seasons before he arrived, and then finished bottom in his third season.
At Gent, you said the team was so rotten that no one could turn it round. But the manager after Peeters (Victor Fernandez) DID turn it round, as they went on a run of 15 games winning 10, drawing 3 and losing 2.
He may well be a good, intelligent coach, but i don't think what you posted above tells the whole story accurately.
Your closing in on Richard Cawley for the title of the 'bearer of bad news'
Waasland-Beveren have a couple of Israeli players, their agent of course is Dudu Dahan.
Seems the mysterious Dudu has successfully sold a few players to Bob in the past....
Bob didn't buy any of WB players, he took over in november, all players et the club were bought by their previous manager ... Bob just worked with the maetrial he had at his disposal.
and @ _addick i don't don't know bob personnaly lol, i'm just a fan with a passion for football -
i just think some people here overrate way too much players/managers you know from english football and really underestimate managers you don't know. I saw it happening with jose riga, and now Bob Peeters is already slaughtered off by a couple of posters whithout them knowing anything about him. They are bith really good managers who know the game and know what it takes to deliver results and how to get the most of players handed to them. I know belgian Pro League is no premier League or even Championship, but football is football. They are also both very good at bringing young players, giçve them confidence and get the most out of them.
And personally i think English football relies way to much on buying established players than spending effort and money on their own youth players. Belgium was really the same in this regard but they changed it 10 years ago with an entire new devised coaching approach to youngsters and it's started to pay off. we never had such quality young players before.
Waasland-Beveren have a couple of Israeli players, their agent of course is Dudu Dahan.
Seems the mysterious Dudu has successfully sold a few players to Bob in the past....
We're really in the Dudu then....
Nobody ever said following Charlton was easy!
I am just idly speculating that Dudu and Riga may not see eye to eye. Perhaps Riga's refusal to use the dross fostered upon his predecessor [by Dudu perhaps] in January caused offence.
Dudu is RD's football advisor and also a player's agent - talk about cornering the market.
So if Belgian Bob and Israeli Dudu can do business then all is good [for Dudu at least].
i follow football in general for along time and started following charlton and this forums as a reader since RD took over the club.
As for Bob Peeters, i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player. I'm reading the same kind of posts that i have been reading when Jose Riga was appointed as a manager afetr chris powell was sacked.
Just as Jose Riga, Bob Peeters is a very intelligent guy; RD seems to like to work with intelligent people.
After Bob Peeters became champions in the belgian Pro League with Lierse in 1997, he played 7 years in the Netherlands, after that he went to milwall. In his prime as a player (1997 -2003), he was also a Belgian International player. At Millwall and also his teams after that, he never reached his best level, because he had alot of injuries constantly.
After his career as a player, he worked mainly as a football analyst and commentator for Belgian TV.
As a coach he started as youth coach at AA Gent, one of the bigger teams in Belgium. He coached cercle brugge after that, a small team in belgium with a low budget and he did perform very very well with them, playing attractive football with limited players. After two years at cercle brugge, AA Gent called him to rplace their sacked manager. But the team in gent was so rotten that Bob couldn't turn stuff around, and he git sacked, but his successor coulnd't trun it around neither. So Gent used like 4 managers in one season, but basicly the managers weren't at fault but the club itself - also the players didn't egt along with eachother at Gent.
This year he took over waasland Beveren, when they were bound for relegation. Bob came in when they had 8 points out of 36 after 12 games and they were lagging way behind on a safe spot to avoid relegation. He wanted to try and turn the team into a totaaly different playing style (they were playing ultradefensive but still lost every game) , and the first month he only managed 1/12 (including three away matches against good teams) . But after that the team picked up what Bob was trying to teach them and they started winning, even against the big teams in the belgian pro league. After the team had 9/48 they only lost ONCE in the last 12 games (6W - 5D - 1L), getting 23/36 and saving themselves from relegation against all the odds.
Bob is really considered as one of the most promising young belgian managers around, and he was formed according to the "new belgian school of training" which focusses on fast combiantion play and ball possesion (belgium FA started doing this 10 years ago with ALL youth teams from all clubs, after they failed misarably in wc and ec qualification, and since adapting this methods, is producing tons of quality, technically skilled players lately).
NO WAY, Bob will be a "yes man" to RD, he is way to intelligent and proud for that. In fact RD is way to smart himself to have just people who lick his boots around him.
You will also find him very communicative, FUNNY (in a really good way, he has an excellent sense of humour in press interviews), intelligent and 110% committed. Bob is a great person and personality with the brains and football knowledge that is needed to succeed.
I don't know if Bob will produce the results all charlton fans want to see, but he is definately is capable of delivering. I hope he will do great at Charlton.
Is that you again Bertje.....?
For those wondering what I'm on about Bertje was a previous Belgium visitor whose praise for Karel Fraeye (and for RD's 'astuteness' in picking him) reads rather like that for Peeter's from our friend byl above:
thanks @byl we appreciate your input, but i don't think you are right on some of your stats.
According to the results on soccerway, Waasland won 1, Drew 4, Lost 4 of their last 9 games, with all 4 defeats being the last 4 games. Not the (6w 5d 1defeat) you suggest.
At Cercle Brugge they were an established mid-table team, finishing (4th, 9th, 9th) in the seasons before he arrived, and then finished bottom in his third season.
At Gent, you said the team was so rotten that no one could turn it round. But the manager after Peeters (Victor Fernandez) DID turn it round, as they went on a run of 15 games winning 10, drawing 3 and losing 2.
He may well be a good, intelligent coach, but i don't think what you posted above tells the whole story accurately.
José Riga, which has managed to keep Charlton, however, is replaced overnight by ... Bob Peeters!
Wednesday, José Riga had yet been Duchâtelet Roland on the line, it felt to want to give a little time to think before making a decision. This means that if Charlton out of trouble in the Premiership now to the general satisfaction fell down from his chair Thursday morning learning the appointment of Bob Peeters at the head of "Addicks. "
"Even if no renewal clause had been expected at the signing of the contract binding me to the London club, which I gladly accepted, I do not imagine for a moment that it stops this way , so brutally. Without bragging on my part, including supporters, we had been very satisfied with the good turn of events and the work I could do in a competition that I had a lot of fun to discover. Now, to know why I have no voice, it remains a total mystery to me. "
What a way to run a "business" or even a football club !!
Does the word "respect" exist in the Belgian language ?
My enthusiasm for the current regime is dwindling by the minute . Two good men treated very shabbily , no, make that insulted by our owner.
I was underwhelmed when Chris Powell got the job. I was underwhelmed when Jose Riga got the job Being underwhelmed doesn't make for it being a bad appointment. Can't we just wait and see. Plenty of time to hang the bloke if it goes pear shaped. Let's not do it before he gets appointed.
It's not the manager per se that's the problem, SHG but the way in which RD seemingly conducts his business.
i follow football in general for along time and started following charlton and this forums as a reader since RD took over the club.
I don't know if Bob will produce the results all charlton fans want to see, but he is definately is capable of delivering. I hope he will do great at Charlton.
Is that you again Bertje.....?
For those wondering what I'm on about Bertje was a previous Belgium visitor whose praise for Karel Fraeye (and for RD's 'astuteness' in picking him) reads rather like that for Peeter's from our friend byl above:
thanks @byl we appreciate your input, but i don't think you are right on some of your stats.
According to the results on soccerway, Waasland won 1, Drew 4, Lost 4 of their last 9 games, with all 4 defeats being the last 4 games. Not the (6w 5d 1defeat) you suggest.
At Cercle Brugge they were an established mid-table team, finishing (4th, 9th, 9th) in the seasons before he arrived, and then finished bottom in his third season.
At Gent, you said the team was so rotten that no one could turn it round. But the manager after Peeters (Victor Fernandez) DID turn it round, as they went on a run of 15 games winning 10, drawing 3 and losing 2.
He may well be a good, intelligent coach, but i don't think what you posted above tells the whole story accurately.
last six games are just the play offs -- play off II counts for nothing - a lot of teams use it to brig youngsters and try some players at different positions. Last league game for WB was against standard Liege 1-1 .
Cercle brugge did perform well the seasons before because they had some really good players from Sporting Clube de Portugal as part of a cooperation between them. Those young Spoting clube de Portugal players were basicly way too good for the belgian leugue lol. Bob didn't have those players from sporting anymore.
And trust me, AA GENT was a mess at the time, every belgian football fan will be able to confirm that to you.
Don't understand all this wrist slitting negativity. Yes I too would have been happy if Riga stayed on but for reasons we don't know he hasn't. We half expected that anyway.
Given that any new appointment was going to be an unknown non British manager why are people not happy with the appointment when truly none of us have any idea of this blokes likelihood to be good or otherwise. Just like Riga's appointment. Just like Powells appointment and completely opposite to the appointment of Alan Pardew who everybody lauded and wanted. Good old super Al.
Can't we just give this guy a chance before we condemn him.
As far as I can see he's only crime is having played for Millwall and not being Jose Riga.
He gets my 100% support. Welcome Bob.
Well said SHG. I'm just catching up with this (potential) news and am surprised by the negativity on here. I liked Riga and I hope he stays at Charlton either as Director of Football or in some kind of role overseeing youth development - but RD isn't a mug and I think he would have been very thoughtful about who would be best to take us forward as Head Coach. We wanted a swift appointment so we can get on with re-building the team, and this, if confirmed, gives us that. Look at it this way:
Chris Powell and Charlton was a love match, leading to a marriage that went sour.
Jose Riga and Charlton was a mad, passionate, no-strings, fling.
Bob Peeters and Charlton might just be the real thing. Let's at least wait and see how things unfold.
For those wondering what I'm on about Bertje was a previous Belgium visitor whose praise for Karel Fraeye (and for RD's 'astuteness' in picking him) reads rather like that for Peeter's from our friend byl above:
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After failing to agree on the club's future plans with owner Roland Duchatelet, Riga - whose contract was only until the end of the season - is leaving The Valley.
And it's not what Riga told the Belgian paper. In fact Riga said he's dissapointed not to have got the job as if he wasn't offered it .
my first post here on the charlton forums.
i follow football in general for along time and started following charlton and this forums as a reader since RD took over the club.
As for Bob Peeters, i am a fan of Lierse SK, a team from the town bob peeters was born and were he started and finished his career as a player.
I'm reading the same kind of posts that i have been reading when Jose Riga was appointed as a manager afetr chris powell was sacked.
Just as Jose Riga, Bob Peeters is a very intelligent guy; RD seems to like to work with intelligent people.
After Bob Peeters became champions in the belgian Pro League with Lierse in 1997, he played 7 years in the Netherlands, after that he went to milwall. In his prime as a player (1997 -2003), he was also a Belgian International player. At Millwall and also his teams after that, he never reached his best level, because he had alot of injuries constantly.
After his career as a player, he worked mainly as a football analyst and commentator for Belgian TV.
As a coach he started as youth coach at AA Gent, one of the bigger teams in Belgium.
He coached cercle brugge after that, a small team in belgium with a low budget and he did perform very very well with them, playing attractive football with limited players.
After two years at cercle brugge, AA Gent called him to rplace their sacked manager. But the team in gent was so rotten that Bob couldn't turn stuff around, and he git sacked, but his successor coulnd't trun it around neither. So Gent used like 4 managers in one season, but basicly the managers weren't at fault but the club itself - also the players didn't egt along with eachother at Gent.
This year he took over waasland Beveren, when they were bound for relegation. Bob came in when they had 8 points out of 36 after 12 games and they were lagging way behind on a safe spot to avoid relegation. He wanted to try and turn the team into a totaaly different playing style (they were playing ultradefensive but still lost every game) , and the first month he only managed 1/12 (including three away matches against good teams) . But after that the team picked up what Bob was trying to teach them and they started winning, even against the big teams in the belgian pro league. After the team had 9/48 they only lost ONCE in the last 12 games (6W - 5D - 1L), getting 23/36 and saving themselves from relegation against all the odds.
Bob is really considered as one of the most promising young belgian managers around, and he was formed according to the "new belgian school of training" which focusses on fast combiantion play and ball possesion (belgium FA started doing this 10 years ago with ALL youth teams from all clubs, after they failed misarably in wc and ec qualification, and since adapting this methods, is producing tons of quality, technically skilled players lately).
NO WAY, Bob will be a "yes man" to RD, he is way to intelligent and proud for that. In fact RD is way to smart himself to have just people who lick his boots around him.
You will also find him very communicative, FUNNY (in a really good way, he has an excellent sense of humour in press interviews), intelligent and 110% committed.
Bob is a great person and personality with the brains and football knowledge that is needed to succeed.
I don't know if Bob will produce the results all charlton fans want to see, but he is definately is capable of delivering. I hope he will do great at Charlton.
Seems the mysterious Dudu has successfully sold a few players to Bob in the past....
Nobody ever said following Charlton was easy!
According to the results on soccerway, Waasland won 1, Drew 4, Lost 4 of their last 9 games, with all 4 defeats being the last 4 games. Not the (6w 5d 1defeat) you suggest.
At Cercle Brugge they were an established mid-table team, finishing (4th, 9th, 9th) in the seasons before he arrived, and then finished bottom in his third season.
At Gent, you said the team was so rotten that no one could turn it round. But the manager after Peeters (Victor Fernandez) DID turn it round, as they went on a run of 15 games winning 10, drawing 3 and losing 2.
He may well be a good, intelligent coach, but i don't think what you posted above tells the whole story accurately.
and @ _addick i don't don't know bob personnaly lol, i'm just a fan with a passion for football -
i just think some people here overrate way too much players/managers you know from english football and really underestimate managers you don't know. I saw it happening with jose riga, and now Bob Peeters is already slaughtered off by a couple of posters whithout them knowing anything about him. They are bith really good managers who know the game and know what it takes to deliver results and how to get the most of players handed to them. I know belgian Pro League is no premier League or even Championship, but football is football. They are also both very good at bringing young players, giçve them confidence and get the most out of them.
And personally i think English football relies way to much on buying established players than spending effort and money on their own youth players. Belgium was really the same in this regard but they changed it 10 years ago with an entire new devised coaching approach to youngsters and it's started to pay off. we never had such quality young players before.
this article sums up what happened in belgium footballwise last ten years for youth development:
http://grantland.com/features/world-cup-2014-belgian-national-team-vincent-kompany-eden-hazard-marouane-fellaini/
Dudu is RD's football advisor and also a player's agent - talk about cornering the market.
So if Belgian Bob and Israeli Dudu can do business then all is good [for Dudu at least].
For those wondering what I'm on about Bertje was a previous Belgium visitor whose praise for Karel Fraeye (and for RD's 'astuteness' in picking him) reads rather like that for Peeter's from our friend byl above:
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/61497/karel-fraeye/p3
Soccerway is wrong mate
Edit; in fact it's not wrong. Dunno what you're looking at Afka - http://uk.soccerway.com/national/belgium/pro-league/20132014/regular-season/r21451/
I'm running out of tissues ! What a way to run a "business" or even a football club !!
Does the word "respect" exist in the Belgian language ?
My enthusiasm for the current regime is dwindling by the minute . Two good men treated very shabbily , no, make that insulted by our owner.
One shirt sponsorship less next season, RD.
Results here
Last league game for WB was against standard Liege 1-1 .
Cercle brugge did perform well the seasons before because they had some really good players from Sporting Clube de Portugal as part of a cooperation between them. Those young Spoting clube de Portugal players were basicly way too good for the belgian leugue lol. Bob didn't have those players from sporting anymore.
And trust me, AA GENT was a mess at the time, every belgian football fan will be able to confirm that to you.
I'm nt here to make some stuff up
I prefer a long term relationship.
Charlton Athletic, the most paranoid fan base ever