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Gianni eyes an orange future
Friday 5th September 2008, 11:29AM BST.
New Albion star Gianni Zuiverloon believes rave reviews in the Premier League could propel him onto the international stage with Holland.
The defender will win his 18th under-21s cap tonight as the Dutch look to qualify for next summer’s UEFA Championships. But the 21-year-old already has half an eye on the right-back berth in the full squad currently occupied by former Chelsea man Khalid Boulahrouz.
“I think moving to Albion will help me,” said Zuiverloon. “If I play well at this level then the coach will see that I can play well in what is probably the biggest competition in the world.
“If he sees that I can play well in England then yes, why not?
“They have Boulahrouz at the moment but if I do well and get selected for the squad then who knows?
“I have confidence in my ability.”
Zuiverloon and his under-21s team mates face Norway in the Dutch town of Kerkrade tonight before travelling to Schaffhausen to play Switzerland on Tuesday.
And Zuiverloon will then return to England hoping to continue his positive early form in Albion colours.
He has been involved in a defeat and a draw in his two appearances so far but he believes the Baggies have performed better than the table suggests.
“We’ve been unlucky,” he said. “We’ve been playing well and if we keep dominating matches like this then we will do OK and have a chance of staying up.
“We’ve bought some good players and the team has improved. It can only get better and better.
“We play good football and if we start scoring then we will stay in this league easily.
“If we can keep up our work then it shouldn’t a be a problem for us as long as we score goals. We need to keep going and I’m confident the goals will come.”
And Zuiverloon says he has learned already from the experience at Bolton, when he was forced to operate at centre-back for the second 45 minutes.
He said: They played a lot of long balls which is different to what I’m used to.
“I played at centre-half when I was a youth at Feyenoord. I don’t mind playing there.”
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Looney has been so impressive, if he keeps improving he will be worth 10million plus in a years time!!
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TM is starting something here, wenger has done it for years in france, real madrid and barca also went to holland, as did the italian giants. all picked up the young up and coming crop of talent. this is why our national team is suffering, because of greedy clubs (from any division) putting ridiculous price tags on young english players. beckford, maynard and maybe scotland should all be given a chance at the higher level, but if you can buy a highly developed young talent like “loon” for the same money, what would you do? i’ve read cruyff’s comments on our gianni, so he’ll be in the senior squad very soon. FOREVER ALBION
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he will be lifting the world cup as captain of albion and his country,wot a bargain aye boing boing donk
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Quality, Quality player. Hope we can hold onto him because this kid is definately good enough to play for a top 4 club.
Boing Boing
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hey bomber i think we won the first morning topic hands down aye boing boing donk
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good shout bomber. we must sign donk on a permanent though, he really will be some player. i mentioned a striker yesterday dario conca fro flumenense in brazil, solihull baggie told me to watch you tube and contact TM immediately, what a player!!! i haven’t got TM’s mobile number, but hopefully he’ll read this. get him and trejo in jan. FOREVER ALBION
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roll on 13 Sept. Having been in Cyprus for a few weeks on holiday I am yet to see a game home or away!!! . By all accounts we have played well in games but have failed to do the main job of sticking the ball in the net
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7,flippy dont worry mate wont be long before we am,hope you had nice hols aye boing boing donk
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agree he will be a class player who will be great for us
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The future’s bright, the future’s orange!
Wonder if Mr Mopbrow will introduce similar colour shirts to that big club up the road?
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morning bomber, terry, happy. ive been rained off so its good to be here. Another steal the mowbury way, think theres one or two more gems that will shine in the next few weeks
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you only need another 10 good players Terry Donkeee..lol
Whats it like to score a goal..lol
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what a laugh villa villa. have you got a stutter or is your brace caught on your tongue. tell me was it stoke who beat your oh so classy side
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he will not play for holland whilst he is in an albion shirt. ask scott carson about his international future, if they do well they will just look for a transfer, gera and phillips syndrome, not like our youngsters playing for the badge. England under 21s tonight, 3 proud wolves will step out at wembley!
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For any player to catch the eye of international managers, the club he plays for must be doing well also, though I am sure the Baggies will eventually come good and live up to their potential, sadly at the moment they are not.
Playing at under 21 level is very exciting for young guns like Gianni, but you are only in the focus of the people who matter for the odd game now and again, he has to perform at first team level week in and week out, maybe then he will catch the eye of his International team manager.
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Ah I see Villa.Villa is back, I’d wondered what had happened to that muppet! Thought the school holidays had finished you little truant?!
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14) jog on you goon , if you check we have loads of international players, not all kids full internationals. you no what the more i read what you say the more i realise you are just a plonker
ps hows the kids league going
premiership and having a laugh
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14..I see nothing changes you are still spouting off rubbish
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16..
You’re the muppet watching that rubbish…
School must still be off where you live as why would you be on here..
You are a pop league team and you know it..
Turn the league table up side down and you will be top of the Prem, it’s the only way you’ll ever be top!!!
LOL…
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19) some people have computers a work. And you rvile arrogance will catch up with you. After selling your soul to the americans what you got. A talisman who cant wait to leave and lets be honest a very medicore start to the season. So if i were you i would stop worrying about us and more about yourselves. If not only 2 weeks to go you can come down the hawthorns and discuss it with us
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AJ
You cannot take this villavilla character seriously.
If he is a villa fan, then you cannot take any of them seriously…..they are without question THE most obnoxious fans anywhere and their pious self importance is excruciatingly laughable.
Whenever i hear the words “i`m a villa fan”
i switch off imediately, they are a joke.
villa villa, could of course be a dingle with a chip on his shoulder, in disguise.
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See what I mean…
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no19. do you have to put villa villa on paper so you can remember the words to your only song at the “franchise stadium”. this my clubs bigger, better than your club is nonsensical and puerile. be honest you’d never heard of gianni zuiverloon and ryan donk before they come to the hawthorns had you. thought not, but guess what?… van gaal, cruyff, rijkaard and van basten have all recently said that these boys are highly talented with a great future. now then, i take great care in learning about a subject before i spout about it. be advised my friend and grow up a bit. FOREVER ALBION
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to quote quitier keegan ” i would love it if we beat them … Love it”
You arrogent little twerp
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23..if they were that good top clubs like us, Arsenal, Man U etc would have snaped them up.
Just look at the table boys..
enough said.
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LOL
Top clubs like us, i told you you cant take them seriously.
They are funnier than a vegetable that has grown into a rude and amusing shape (Baldrick circa 1999)
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To quote no 25. ‘top clubs like us, Arsenal and Man U etc’. Incredibly said without a hint of irony!!!
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how exactly are you like manu and arsenal ?? you own self importance is staggering. What exactly have you won recently to quantify such a statment.
Two weeks tool
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25. once again you delude yourself. top clubs sign the likes of berbatov, torres, deco and van persie, not milner or dare i say it davies. there is a pecking order in the premier league, the top table who buy the superstars in their prime. the midriff who mainly buy once top players and over inflated ego’s and the newly promoted clubs tend to buy has beens and depend on what they’ve got. because our manager has gone out and attracted very promising players who play to a certain style i.e. on the floor you find it galling and resort to petty knit picking. a few years before you were born (prob) crystal palace were top of the then (prem) 1st division after 3 games, the press loved them, flashy manager (malcolm allison) and from london. the team of the decade they were called. then they got beat in nearly all their remaining 39 games. i’m not saying we’ll win the prem, but i am saying you won’t either. now be a good lad and keep looking at the table. FOREVER ALBION
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villavilla ,is a little sneeky dingle in disguise dont be fooled,,hes gotta be terry had him in the net along time ago,ignore him and he,ll go away back to the rest of the dings,,,MOWBRAYS DUTCH BABBIES SHOWING THE WAY IN THE PREM,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOOOH YES,,
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wbaforever. as a true devotee of all things blackadder may i put in a nearly true line “my websites full of cowpats from the devillas own satanic herd” i love villavilla, i can imagine his high pitched voice singing along in the orange bowl or whatever randy calls it now!
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Why are some Baggies fans so bitter, true football fans (whoever they support) are’nt all like Villa Villa, even we cant stand the thicko, but have you noticed that you too have a few dead heads. Dont paint us all with the same brush just because we dont support the Baggies.
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YOU LOT ARE BRAIN WASHED ON HERE..
WHAT ARE YOU LIKE!!!
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re laughing wolf:talk sense you muppet,do ya think them so called “super u21s”playing in dog shirts, wo go to a bigger club if they play well?cos you already know the baggies are a bigger,better club already
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re laughing wolf:you are a muppet pal,your proud young wolves will be off to a bigger club if they perform anywhere near as well as loony.and more to the point ,didnt lescott do they same to you clowns?
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will be well amusing when u dont get a result against us, as our team will cope with you and give u as gd back as as what u give us, also will be great when u school boys shouting villlla villla are drown out by OHH WHEN THE STRIPESSS, GO MARCHING IN, OFF WHEN THE STRIPES GO MARCHING IN WANA BE IN THAT NUMBER OHH WHEN THE STRIPS GO MARCHING IN!!!!!! and what u ona bout turn the league upside down is the only time u will ever be top of the league, u can flip the league up side down round and round for the rest of your lives, you will always be in the middle as a middle league side, two years time when u want to flip the league upside down because u are no longer the top midlands side we will be laughing at you Boing Boing!!
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I try to picture Laughing Wolf and Villa-villa, but people who spout and believe their own bull**** are too far gone. There was a film with
Danny Kaye in it called ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’. In his head he was the greatest hero ever lived with imagination to match. Are you pair blushing? Nah, as I said, too far gone!
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32 villavilla.
Caps lock on. SBBA coming out in his true colours?
15 John Aston.
I presume you’re John fron Aston and not the poor man’s George Best. Can’t quite see your point. We’ve played three games, against last years 3rd and 5th, and a team notoriously difficult to beat at home. GZ has played two of these, one while still slightly jet-lagged and half of the other out of position. In both he has looked superb. While your efforts are appreciated, I think you really have more to worry about in your own back yard.
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