Dutch Eredivisie like the financial markets…

By: Jan | October 19th, 2008

Gold goes down, inflation soars, US$ goes up… All that illogical stuff is happening in the fiancial markets and now it seems the Dutch Eredivisie clubs are following that erratic behaviour…

We have a top 3 from Groningen, Breda and Nijmegen if I’m not mistaken.

We have “no-name” coaches like Ron Jans, Mario Been and Robert Maaskant taking the big boys to the cleaners. Tough Dog Stevens needs to get tougher. Gertjan Verbeek feels ashamed but couldn’t admit it and Marco van Basten speaks of insane football…

What is wrong?

Not much really. It’s called hyperinflation and devaluation. The big bully of the “World Economy” (The Top Three) are being attacked by emerging markets (Twente, NAC, NEC, FC Groningen).

It’s exciting!

The smaller clubs smell blood! This year, Feyenoord doesn’t seem to be able to get it together. Against Willem 2 (didn’t they beat Ajax too?), the workman’s club plodded and sleepwalked over the pitch. They should get half their weekly pay this time around. In the second half they started to play football and they did see two balls on the woodwork and one goal disallowed, but hey… What do you expect when you play De Guzman and Biseswar up front and you leave Michael Mols fit and ready on the bench?

PSV can’t dominate the game anymore. I don’t know who or what they’re missing this season (Gomes??? Farfan???), but the once mighty - but boring - PSV is in trouble when the opponent (Maaskant’s NAC this time) puts the pressure on them…

Ajax didn’t do too shabby against FC Groningen, who came to the Arena as the leader of the competition. One fan took a big sign to the stadium: “At last the Eredivisie leader plays in the Arena again…”, but Groningen had too much respect for Ajax and the Van Basten led club won. And Ajax celebrated the win as if they won the Champions League… Geez…

NAC is the new leader, Groningen is up there, McLaren’s Twente looks good and Mario Been’s NEC keeps on winning!!

Even Louis van Gaal’s AZ is making it’s way up the standings…

Interesting times ahead… And although it’s early days still, could this be the season where Twente, Groningen or ADO Den Haag wins the title?

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