Day 6: Wales vs Iran | Qatar vs Senegal | Netherlands vs Ecuador | England vs USA

Reij

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The maestro FDJ is anonymous as always. He can't run even a limonade stand. The same performance he puts out for Barcelona, no wonder he's been pushed out of first 11's by kids.
Edit: like a very shite version of Toni Kroos.
 

Lecland07

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People saying about Timber, but I'm glad we didn't sign De Jong. I think he would have been an awful signing.
 

Adam-Utd

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Kinda bizarre that EtH apparently prioritized him over Licha
I can only think it was a combination of;

Varane/Maguire being strong LCBs and wanting a RCB

Timber being a lot cheaper.

After a month or so with Maguire he realised he's rubbish and we needed some aggression/leadership so changed the plan.
 

Sultan

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I don't see anything special about de Jong. We may have dodged a bullet. Cassemiro is so much better. I hope we go nowhere near Dumfries.
 

Tony247

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Prolonged dry spell of dutch talent is shocking. Same with Germnay and Italy. Seems these giants are in perpetual transition state.
 

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Just switch to a 4-3-3 bring Taylor and Malacia on and go with Gakpo-Memphis-Berghuis and Kopp, Taylor and De Jong in the middle and Dumfries, VVD, Ake and Malacia in defense. We will look so much better. I’m happy I’m stuck at the hotel with a cold instead of watching this mess in the stadium.
 

Ayoba

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What happened to the talent in Netherlands? How did they go from a nation that produced the likes of RVP, robben, sneidjer, kliivert, overmars, stam, etc to this current crop of let's be honest very average players