Van der Vaart completes Real Madrid move

The star factory working at full capacity. After Milan under Sacchi, it's now RM that will be driven by an Ajax/Dutch powerhouse. With it Milan won back to back 2 CL and 2 Intercontinental Cups. RM can do even better.

Ajax, I knew you wouldn't be able to resist.

I know you are not really into long winded posts but below is a little poem about how wrong somebody can be about United's Youth Policy.

Owed to Alan Hansen (You'll Never Win Anything With Kids)

You'll never catch Newcastle; they're the best team in the land.

Maybe Liverpool will push them, but it's really in their hands.

You've sold your best three players; your defence is on the skids,

I've said it all along you don't win anything with kids.

Eric was suspended, Andy Cole was shooting blanks,

The men who bet against you had their money in the banks.

12 points back and you were fighting for that Euro place,

I've said it all along, those kids will not last the pace.

With injuries to your back four, you had to take a chance,

But even William Prunier could not help you advance.

Where was the Saviour Chequebook of the Kevin's and the Roy’s?

I've said it all along you don't win anything with boys.

You won some games but surely 'luck' like this can't be sustained.

The others started dropping points, the race would be maintained.

Liverpool then fell away, too much for them to do,

Let me remind you once again, your kids won't see it through.

The last few weeks would hold the key both on and off the field.

For it was in both places, that truths would be revealed.

Who would crack with the strain and who would rise above it,

Who can forget when Kevin said "I'll love it if we beat them, love it!"

So who would do it on the pitch, who'd get the vital goal?

Daveed? Tino? Ferdinand? No, May and Andy Cole.

Two much maligned players whose careers had been in trouble,

Found the net and found themselves half way to the Double.

The 'experts' in the BBC, decided 3 to 1.

The cup was there for Liverpool, just waiting to be won.

But no-one thought to tell the kids or Eric it was set.

A dreadful game, a brilliant spark, the Frenchman found the net.

They think that it's all over but it's only just begun.

The kids are here to dominate for years and years to come.

The next step now is Europe where each kid becomes a man,

But don't concern yourselves with that, just catch them if you can.

Ajax in 1996 Ajax, Fergie sold Mark Hughes, Paul Ince and Andrei Kanchelskis. Alan Hansen doubted United's ability to win with kids, both at the start of the season and on the morning of the Cup Final. This was written the day after the 1996 FA Cup Final. This team then went to win Europe’s biggest prize two seasons later, most of which were products of our own youth system, none of which we felt the need to sell!

That's just the way it goes in countries as Holland. Unfortunately, yes, but there's just not enough money in those leagues to keep players there.

The same happens to for example PSV. You all mention that Real Madrid is becoming an Ajax powerhouse, but Robben and Van Nistelrooy spent their last Dutch years at PSV (not in youth teams though), while Drenthe was a Feyenoord talent.

that is the best move from van der vart

That's not a bad signing at all!!!