It's mad that Pasveer is going over Flekken (and even Cillessen, though feck him). He did okay for a few months, but has long since returned tl his regular average level. I just hope Vangle isnt insane enough to start him. Though I doubt that.
Somewhat similar to Hans-Jörg Butt, who stumbled into being Bayern's first choice, embraced the challenge and eventually made the Germany squad. Though he was a respected keeper beforehand.
Do you have an opinion on Mark Flekken? He's a bit of an unknown here, but his stats seem brilliant and his team seem to be doing very well so no one here understands why he didnt make the final squad. Is he any good?
I think public opinion considers him 'good', but I haven't watched him closely enough to pass judgement myself, other than remembering a pretty huge blunder against Dortmund. One thing to note is that Freiburg are usually a very solid team that helps its defensive players out a lot, so good stats aren't necessarily everything.
Yeah, that massive blunder is all I saw
I guess it really was between Pasveer and Flekken. Bijlow is supposed to be the prodige (if only he could stay injury-free), and apparently Noppert is in really good form (although I know nothing about him), and there's a serious personality issues for Van Gaal with Cillessen. And I guess Pasveer and Flekken have both had issues lately. So maybe Pasveer then better fits the squad since he's been playing with a fair few of the players already.
Thing is, I'm quite sure Flekken has been doing very well lately, seeing as Freiburg are 2nd in the league. The added caveat is that Flekken was sort of "discovered" by Van Gaal. He was the one to first call him up and repeatedly said Flekken is a real "Van Gaal keeper". Pasveer has been in abysmal form lately (actually he just went back to his regular midtable Eredivisie level), but I suppose he will be less anoying whilst sat on the bench as opposed to Cillessen who comes across as a massive tit.
Yeah, I would also have expected Flekken to be there in place of one of the three others. Guess Pasveer got the Ajax bonus here.
I think there's no exact quote, but he used it to defend the fact that he didn't replace Sergio Busquets' dad who was a shite goalkeeper as he reasoned that you don't really need a keeper if your opponent never shoots.
Probably, yes - given the insane height he sits at. (No, not talking paradise/heaven here.
) But then he's an awesome cult figure. So much more fun than other countries' greatest players. I'm from Freiburg. Very surprised he isn't even in the squad. Without following the Dutch national team I would have assumed he would be in contention to start at the World Cup tbh.
Same here, the only two teams I will watch on the tournament are Portugal for obvious reason and Netherlands . Go Oranjes !
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I'm not sure actually. Van Gaal said he sees him as a midfielder and as such I think Steven Berghuis will get the nod at number 10. He will definitely by a 12th or 13th man if he doesn't start though, since he can play on the wings as a striker and as a 10.@KirkDuyt any idea? Need to know whether it's wortwhile putting him into my Sporza WK manager squad
It's coming home?
Not a whole end though. Quarter finals then?
I think Gakpo is an option on 10 with Berghuis at 8 next to Frenkie against smaller teams... against the bigger teams Berghuis and Frenkie will surely be completed by someone with more defensive awareness such as Klaassen, de Roon, Koopmeiners..
Klaassen has defensive awareness?
According to Van Gaal he does haha, based on his quotes why he started vs Belgium while Gakpo started against Poland..Klaassen has defensive awareness?
I'm not that sure of Bijlow? Sure, Vangle claims the shirt numbers don't mean who's starting, but I can see the crazy git start Pasveer. Not that's I'm particularly bothered about that, Pasveer seems like a nice dude.
Them's fightin' words!!!
Timber a sure thing over De Vrij and De Ligt at the back?
Fullly agree with your take on Danjuma in stead of one of Janssen, Weghorst, de Jong.
Yeah..
Flipping heck can't believe that is 8 years ago now.
Yeah, it's quite scary how time flies. Been a decade since Fergie's last season as well.
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Its netherlands.
As an SC Freiburg supporter it's nothing short of a classic Van Gaal move to exclude Flekken. Clearly the best Dutch keeper by some distance. Very good keeper, apart the blunder v BVB he has been rock solid. Van Gaal will Van Gaal that's the only thing I can say.
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