'Dutch ignorance and arrogance and I think I am qualified to say that'

You certainly are.

The post did not say that FdB was hard done by, try reading it.

Originally posted by DutchEagleJohan
well well well, you genuinely think he was hard done by by the club then? The ludicrous vanity project was destined to fail etc.

IF I were one of the alleged many who voted against FDB's sacking, I might feel he was hard done by. Ergo Johan was just voicing something that was implied and responding accordingly.

Edited by RRA77 (20 May 2018 2.51pm)

Frank de Boer had an excellent playing career and had considerable managerial success with Ajax.

It is quite out of order to trash him on the basis of a few weeks at Palace.

The HOL vote reflected that.

It is not every day you get lucky enough to have the ex-national team manager rescue you so just be grateful for that.

Trashing past managers and players too is quite unnecessary, unsporting and not a credit to so-called supporters.

Time would be better spent on addressing the reasons for the annual PL survival battle, turn-over of managers and the worst injury list of any in the PL, they all seem ok by the last few games of the season.

I have no inside information but this is what I surmise from what people on here and on the BBS have said.

It was Allardyce who recruited Sakho and Parish signed him permanently despite de Boer rather than because of him. De Boer, being a complete and utter pr&t, was the only person anywhere near Palace who actually didn't rate Sakho. The problem presumably was not his assessment of the player but the fact that it wasn't de Boer's idea to get him in.

By the time Loftus-Cheek was recruited de Boer had basically boycotted the recruitment process and gone AWOL for the latter part of the window.

The only player who was recruited with the active involvement of de Boer was Riedewald, who was brought in to suit his bollocks system and in which he looked as much like a lost sheep as the others.

De Boer did enough damage in the time he was here to require an excellent performance from his successor to avoid relegation. I'm amazed anyone else would touch him with a bargepole. He lost the dressing room on day one, a rare achievement indeed (although I am reminded by last night's airing of the film "The Damned United" that Brian Clough managed the same feat at Leeds United in 1974).

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I'd be eager to see this happen...at least he'll be given the chance to mould a side...I agree though that the Championship would be a difficult place to do so, but then perhaps he's learned his lesson and won't try and make wholesale changes so quickly....could turn out to be a very shrewd appointment.

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