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CAN WE SIGN DUTCH PLAYERS INSTEAD OF BELGIANS?

centurion
centurion Posts: 437
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Hi everyone,
You know how Roland is so big into his European integration and all that stuff? Can we just forget these on-loan Belgians and go for a few Dutch instead? Daley Blind would be a nice start, and maybe Robben a year or two from now as he winds down. If we can, I'll be far more confident about sitting in the west stand in the cold next winter watching us fight teams who are already a couple of players ahead of us in their signings for the summer, and not relying on Standard Liege reserves. PS Tim Cahill wouldn't be a bad signing after tonight's show to cleanse himself of Millwall past and seek our forgiveness. And he's neither Dutch nor belgian. He's part Irish!

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  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,353
    centurion said:

    PS Tim Cahill wouldn't be a bad signing after tonight's show to cleanse himself of Millwall past and seek our forgiveness. And he's neither Dutch nor belgian. He's part Irish!

    And played with Mr Peeters at Millwall
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,343
    Blind and Robben? Have you been visiting the coffee shops in Amsterdam?
  • Norfolk_Addick
    Norfolk_Addick Posts: 2,289
    Ruud Van Nistlerooy is a hardcore addick. Maybe we can tempt him out of retirement. Plus Edgar Davids looked good for Rest Of The World FC last week.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,343
    What are Cruyff and Van Basten up to these days? Maybe they fancy a go on our new pitch. They could bring Mr .Bergkamp with them.
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jun/06/belgium-blueprint-gave-birth-golden-generation-world-cup-#comments
  • chester_conrad
    chester_conrad Posts: 738
    edited June 2014
    I'd settle for Sunday morning players at the moment.
  • centurion
    centurion Posts: 437
    We signed a Belgian today. Maybe he will help us with a few late comebacks.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,929
    Bjorne Borg is a big Addick, is he any good at football?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,805
    LargeAddick said:

    Bjorne Borg is a big Addick, is he any good at football?

    Err, he wasn't Dutch the last time I saw him, Large ...

  • centurion
    centurion Posts: 437
    Even if he's not Dutch or Belgian, but a few miles north of there, must tweet Bjorn and ask him if he wants a copy of my book. He doesn't get a mention but Allen Simonsen does.

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  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Reza played for the Dutch u16.17.18,19 teams. What more do we need.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,040
    Absurdistan said:

    Reza played for the Dutch u16.17.18,19 teams. What more do we need.

    Not to mention our last Dutchman Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

    Or maybe I should not have done.

    Going back to the 1930's we had a Dutch Goalkeeper called Gerry Keizer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Keizer
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,440
    What about the one dutch guy that came from Plymouth afew years ago or did he only make the bench.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    centurion said:

    Daley Blind would be a nice start, and maybe Robben

    You need to get your brain looked at
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,040
    Lewis Coaches said:

    What about the one dutch guy that came from Plymouth afew years ago or did he only make the bench.


    Marcel Seip was an unused sub . A strange signing at the end of Parkinson's era .He came in to cover a busy month including clutch of 3 matches in a week when we needed to play Brentford in the JPT and Luton in the FA Cup in televised games. There was one big problem with this. He was already Cup tied for both competitions having already featured for the Pilgrims.
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,573
    Nice one centurion
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,394
    Daley Blind has been playing out of his skin in this World Cup (well, in the game against Spain).

    Truth is that he isn't that good consistently. Think a lot of people have been drawn in by the media hype around him over the last week. I was at the Ajax stadium a couple of weeks ago doing a tour and spoke with a couple of fans. They said that he has improved a lot lately but the fans are always on his back because he doesn't do it week in and week out. They sent him out on loan to Groningen to try and sort him out.

    Think Danny Green - someone with all the skills in their locker, but incredibly frustrating in how they apply it.

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