[St Charles Owl]

I’m sorry 0762 but you have gone too far this time!!! How can you end your post with the word “soccer”??? I have spent 20 years trying (and failing miserably) to not use that word over here, its football or footie!!

Back to the topic, yes their best players will be raided by the big teams across Europe, its really always been that way as soon as players started moving countries. If you remember the same happened to Monaco a few years ago when the likes of Mbappe were sold, that nearly relegated them if I remember correctly!! If contracts are still current then they may be able to hold out for one more year but I am sure they will demand big fees and there will be one team who will pay it.

As for their fans, the Dutch fans that follow their big teams abroad have always been trouble, even when the English fans were the poster boys of hooliganism the Dutch were probably even worse, they just didn’t get as much attention and the English took all the bans. One difference seems to be it is only when they follow their clubs that you see trouble, the Dutch national team fans seemed to be a different entity altogether.