Het Wesley Sneijder topic #3 Bij Real

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Op zondag 2 september 2007 23:21 schreef Dj_Day-V het volgende:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7e-i3Q1Wo Sneijder 0-2
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ceDV2l9SZZw Sneijder 0-4

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Op zondag 2 september 2007 23:22 schreef NumberNine het volgende:

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Wat een rotcommentaar zeg.

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Op zondag 2 september 2007 23:22 schreef NumberNine het volgende:

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Wat een rotcommentaar zeg.

Maar die doelpunten zijn om van te smullen!

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Op zondag 2 september 2007 23:21 schreef Dj_Day-V het volgende:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7e-i3Q1Wo Sneijder 0-2
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ceDV2l9SZZw Sneijder 0-4

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 12:08 schreef Cyberia18 het volgende:
Wat zou Valencia nu wel niet denken? Die wouden eerst niet verder gaan dan een bod van 14 miljoen op hem terwijl ze twee weken later wel een rendementloze middenvelder in de naam van Fernandes aantrokken. En dat voor 18 miljoen

Valencia am cry

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 12:08 schreef Cyberia18 het volgende:
Wat zou Valencia nu wel niet denken? Die wouden eerst niet verder gaan dan een bod van 14 miljoen op hem terwijl ze twee weken later wel een rendementloze middenvelder in de naam van Fernandes aantrokken. En dat voor 18 miljoen

Valencia am cry

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 17:28 schreef tong80 het volgende:
Wereldster in wording

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 22:09 schreef Cyberia18 het volgende:
Nog een leuk feitje is dat Sanchez Flores zich immers versprak op de eventuele komst van Sneijder en aangaf hem ''niet nodig te hebben.''

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 22:17 schreef mcyodogg het volgende:

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Heeft ie misschien ook niet met Vicente, Joaquin en Silva in de gelederen.

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 22:19 schreef Cyberia18 het volgende:

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Joaquin en Vicente zijn echte buitenspelers. Verklaar me anders eens waarom ze Fernandes hebben aangetrokken? Die reden lijkt me wel duidelijk.

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 22:33 schreef mcyodogg het volgende:

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Fernandes lijkt me gehaald voor een meer verdedigende rol op het middenveld. En buitenspelers, hoeveel buitenspelers zijn nog echte buitenspelers?

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Wesley Sneijder the Real deal
By Sid Lowe

When Holland international Wesley Sneijder arrived at Real Madrid and took the No 23 shirt he insisted it had nothing to do with David Beckham. "I am not trying to replace anyone - least of all Beckham," claimed the 22-year-old midfielder who signed for £18.2 million from Ajax.

Replacing the former England captain might not have been Sneijder's intention, but just two weeks into the season he appears to have done just that.

There has been none of the fanfare of Beckham's arrival, none of the glitz or glamour and no sign of pop divas and movie stars in the Bernabeu's glass-fronted private box, but even if the marketing men miss Beckham, Real's gleeful fans are already asking themselves: David who?

Having slipped into the Madrid team as easily as he slipped into Beckham's shirt, Sneijder has already proven a more than worthy replacement for the Englishman, as Real look to bury the 'boring' football of last season's Fabio Capello-inspired league title success to become La Liga's great entertainers. Two league matches have been enough for Sneijder to herald the revolution and to score two free-kicks - the first earning Real all three points in the Madrid derby on the opening day of the season.

The second came on Sunday night when Sneijder curled a fantastic shot over the wall and into the net as Real defeated Villarreal 5-0 at the Madrigal, ending Villarreal's run of nine successive victories. "Sneijder wears No 23 like Beckham and he takes free-kicks just as well as the Englishman," cheered one columnist in the Madrid-based newspaper AS.

But it was not just about that goal. That was the second of the night, the goal that ended Villarreal's resistance, and Sneijder had made the opener too. The Dutchman swung a magnificent 40-yard pass - a 'Hollywood ball' that Beckham would have been proud of - over the home defence for Raul to run on to and score from. Sneijder then added a classy second with a clever finish with the outside of a foot, taking Madrid to the top of the league.

"He reminds me of another blond guy who played for Real Madrid once and struck the ball really well too," insisted Real coach Bernd Schuster after the match. But the German was not talking about Beckham; he was talking about himself from back in the days when he patrolled the Bernabeu midfield with class and vision.

Never mind David Beckham, there could be no greater compliment from Schuster. It was a compliment Sneijder deserved too. Quite apart from emulating Beckham's long passing and free-kick specialities, he proved himself to be a superb midfield all-rounder alongside Guti: slick, incisive, mobile, with a range of passing and an ability to control the game that Beckham, for all his endearing endeavour, was never able to match during four seasons at the Bernabeu.

With his perspiration and a right foot that was, as the Spanish phrase has it, 'like a velvet glove', Beckham was a Bernabeu hero.

When he won a league title after four years without, Real fans were delighted that justice had been done - it would have been unfair, they insisted, for him to have departed single-handedly. There were those, too, who bemoaned his departure and begged him to stay. But how quickly those pleas have been forgotten.

There is a new kid on the Bernabeu block and he bends it even better than Beckham.

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Op maandag 3 september 2007 22:09 schreef Cyberia18 het volgende:
Nog een leuk feitje is dat Sanchez Flores zich immers versprak op de eventuele komst van Sneijder en aangaf hem ''niet nodig te hebben.''

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Op dinsdag 4 september 2007 18:51 schreef mcyodogg het volgende:

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Bron: The Telegraph.

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Op dinsdag 4 september 2007 18:51 schreef mcyodogg het volgende:

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Bron: The Telegraph.

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‘Sneijder beste aankoop Primera División’

Wesley Sneijder kan voorlopig niet meer stuk in Spanje. De middenvelder op de eerste speeldag met het scoren van de winnende treffer in de derby tegen Atlético, en afgelopen zondag was hij twee maal succesvol in de eclatante 0-5 overwinning op Villarreal. Op het Iberisch schiereiland is men inmiddels al idolaat van de kleine technicus.

Sneijder zelf verblijft momenteel met Oranje in Noordwijk, waar de mannen van Marco van Basten zich voorbereiden op de cruciale EK-kwalificatieduels met Bulgarije (zaterdag thuis) en Albanië (woensdag uit). De hysterie rondom zijn persoon zal dan ook voor het grootste deel voorbij trekken aan de voormalig Ajacied, en dat is misschien maar goed ook.

Voor 27 miljoen euro verzekerde Real zich 2,5 week geleden van de diensten van de Utrechter. Dat hij kon voetballen was alom bekend, maar na nog geen maand in de Spaanse hoofdstad wordt de vergelijking met legende Alfredo di Stéfano al getrokken door de plaatselijke media.

Zo kopt het toonaangevende Marca de tekst: ‘Sneijder, de nieuwe Di Stéfano’, en blijkt uit een poll op de website van de sportkrant dat bijna driekwart van de 34.000 stemmers Sneijder ziet als de beste aankoop die de Spaanse clubs de afgelopen zomer deden.

Met name Valencia zal zichzelf nog wel eens achter de oren hebben gekrabd bij het gadeslaan van het sterke optreden van Sneijder in het treffen met Villarreal. De club uit de sinaasappelstad wilde niet voldoen aan de vraagprijs van Ajax, die rond de 30 miljoen lag. Nog geen maand later was Real wél bereid het volle pond te betalen, en heeft het nu na twee speeldagen met Sneijder de topscorer van de Primera División in haar gelederen.

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What's the difference between Sneijder and Beckham?

One wears the No23 shirt, scores free-kicks, delivers 45-yard assists, is adored by fans and speaks perfect English. The other is David Beckham.

September 3, 2007

When Real Madrid presented Wesley Sneijder alongside fellow Dutchman Royston Drenthe this summer, most people in Spain were not entirely convinced - even if the media cheerleaders did don pom-poms and ra-ra skirts. He was, after all, fourth choice after Madrid had missed out on Kaká, Cesc Fábregas and Michael Ballack; he had cost ¤27m - three days, and one humiliating defeat, after Madrid had told Ajax that they had "three hours, not a minute more" to accept a "final, final" offer of ¤24m; and, let's face it, he was just never going to be as good as David Beckham.

Those who knew Sneijder knew better. Asked whether Drenthe and Sneijder were any good, the text message from one Holland international said it all: "Drenthe, definitely not. Sneijder, definitely yes. The best player in Holland by miles - well worth the money!" Meanwhile, Real Zaragoza full-back Juanfran, who played alongside Sneijder at Ajax, described him as "the best player Madrid have signed since Zinedine Zidane." Which is going some when that list includes Ronaldo and Beckham as well over ¤500m worth of assorted misfits and lunatics, like Walter Samuel, Tommy Gravesen and dermatologists' dream Antonio Cassano.

They were right too. While Beckham has been stillborn in the USA, Sneijder has been sensational in Spain: the La Liga season may only be two weeks old but already he has revealed himself to have a whore for a mother. Round here that's no cuss, either, because for some reason in Spain de puta madre actually means bloody brilliant.

And, boy, is Sneijder bloody brilliant! Worth the ¤27m transfer fee and well worth annoying Ajax so much that their sporting director calls you "a bunch of backstreet pimps". First, he scored the winner on the opening day of the season in the Madrid derby against Atlético and then he turned in another fantastic performance as Bernd Schuster's team turned on the style last night.

It was a big night in Villarreal. Which might not be saying much for a town where people sit out on the streets in plastic chairs waiting for the world to go by without ever quite realising that it's not going to, but it was a big night alright. A top-of-the-table clash between the best two teams in world football, presided over by a cuddly mascot that's supposed to be a submarine but looks more like a sub-normal Moomin, attended by more than half the town's population and broadcast by two different channels as the telly war rages on. Villarreal, boasting nine successive wins and unbeaten since April, against Real Madrid, the league champions and unbeaten in 16 competitive matches.

It was, they said, a real test for Madrid and they passed with flying colours, winning at El Madrigal for the first time ever, inflicting the Yellow Submarine's worst ever defeat as they ran out 5-0 winners with goals from Raúl, Sneijder (2), Guti and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Not because Villarreal were bad, either (they had more possession, more attacks and more shots than Madrid) but because Madrid were excellent. Marca called it "total football", which is pushing it, but with Guti pulling the strings in the middle Madrid kept the ball well and used it neatly, while they were unstoppable on the break. It was, screamed AS, "a white hurricane" and they had a point: once they had scored the second, just after half-time, Madrid blew Villarreal away. Drenthe might have proven to be just as out of control on the pitch as he is on Madrid's mean streets, where at 4.30am on Wednesday morning he cleverly took a left turn that didn't exist and ploughed straight into a police car, but otherwise Schuster's side were impressive, boasting pace, precision and devastating accuracy.

Most of all, though, they boasted Sneijder. The midfielder, said Van Nistelrooy, revealing rather too much as the players emerged from their post-match shower, "is enormous". In fact he's got the big-eyed smiley face of a five-year-old and the height of one, too. But while Sneijder stands at barely 5ft 7in, his performance was certainly immense: "Maradonian", said Marca, while even coach Bernd Schuster was raving about him. "Sneijder reminds me of another blond midfielder who played for Real Madrid once - he wasn't bad either," said the blond former Madrid midfielder with characteristic modesty.

Unable to fill Beckham's shoes? Pah! On the evidence so far, anything Becks can do, Sneijder can do better. Curling free-kicks? Check. Raking 45-yard balls? Check (and Sneijder's ones actually get you somewhere). Hard work? Check. Then there's the pace, the short passing, the flicks, the vision, the intelligence, and the goals. Oh, and the ability to shake off an opponent without turning his backside to them, waiting for the contact and shooting 300 feet into the air.

Last night, Sneijder provided a wonderful long assist, swinging a 40-yard ball over the defence for Raúl to open the scoring. He then curled an unstoppable free-kick in-off the post for the second, killing off Villarreal's resistance, and later hit a classy finish with the outside of his boot to make him La Liga's top scorer with three in two matches, thus earning him the nickname Pichichi and Real Madrid a deserved top spot on a perfect night.

Well, almost perfect. Because, as usual, a Spanish referee did his best to ruin things. No, not Mejía Dávila, who gave Barça a debatable penalty after Gorka assaulted Thierry's Henry's foot with his face and awarded a goal for a Yaya Touré shot that never went over the line, but chest-puffing, strutting disciplinarian Luis Medina Cantalejo. On a weekend marked by tributes to Antonio Puerta, this particularly pathetic individual booked Sergio Ramos, a former team-mate and close friend of Puerta, for removing his shirt to reveal a vest with the slogan: "Antonio, rest in peace. We will never forget you." And they wonder why people hate them.

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Op woensdag 5 september 2007 09:07 schreef HeatWave het volgende:
Had ie ook wel 50 miljoen kunnen opbrengen .