RVP slagging his team mates off in the press today. That guy has no class.
yeah not sure your right about that on either point ,not my work just cut and pasted from elsewhere ,but thought some my be interested to see for themselves ,and not just take the word of the news papers trying to stir it up and sell papers ,All in all, it seems a far more positive interview than the one that Carrick gave which he was lambasted for on here because he was giving standard answers, showed no personality or fire and he actually did not answer the question whether the team should be taking responsibility for that whereas RVP kept repeating how the team should and gave honest thoughtful answers. So why all the hate? You can't have it both ways.
Anyway, here is the translation and link to the video if you want to gauge the mood when he said what
https://nos.nl/video/616277-van-persie-gelooft-nog-in-kwartfinale.html
Interviewer: "Robin, nice game."
RVP: "Yeah, delightful eh?"
Interviewer: "Shocking..."
RVP: "Yeah, it wasn't good."
Ïnterviewer: "I don't recognize United at all... though I haven't watched you guys lately"
RVP: <laughs> "That could be the reason. Nah, we created little, didn't play well, which could lead to such a defeat. They didn't really have big chances either, their first goal was quite lucky, the second one was a good goal. But they didn't really create played out chances, they weren't fantastic or anything. We were just bad."
Interviewer: "The game was a bit comparable to that of PSG, first twenty minutes you thought "well, ok", seems like you weathered the storm.. but you didn't strike back at all after it.
RVP: "No, we failed to do that. The back four and the two midfielders did well in possession, but nothing much happened in the front ranks, so that makes it very dificult. Then you have to hope for that one chance and it did come <interviewer interrupts contineously here with comments like "you certainly did", "too hasty", "slipped a bit" etc). I know I had to make that. The first part was good, first touch good, everything went according to plan, but the shot was a bit too hasty and that's a pity because I don't get many chances so when I do get one, it has to be in."
1:17-1:50
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Interviewer: "Don't you have the urge sometimes to go look for the ball, to have some touches with it.
RVP: "Yeah, I have that urge alot. But uhhh <interviewer interrupts with: "you are not allowed to").. no no no, of course it is allowed, but my teammates sometimes take up the position and spaces that I like to play in, so when I see that it is difficult for me to also go into that space. So I have to adapt my running lines on the basis of where my teammates are standing/playing, and unfortunately that's oftentimes in my playing zones... and that is uhh... yes, a bit unfortunate/a pity.
Interviewer: "What I am missing, and certainly in an English team, Man United used to play with power, pace, and I'm not even talking about defence splitting passes which comes with patience." (bit difficult to literally translate it, what he's trying to say is that he doesn't even see the basic attributes of a top English team in our play).
RVP: "Yeah no (we love to say that in dutch, just means we are confirming the observation), exactly. We actually can play like that, but we didn't do that today. It was just too slow today and because of that you don't create much. We have, what, 2 shots on target in the entire match? Against Olympiakos, that's far too little. So uhh, everyone is very disappointed.
2:20-2:43
Interviewer: "You came for the trophies. You're not going to be finding them for a while."
RVP: "Well yeah <laughs>, it's going to be difficult <interviewer laughs and interrupts with: "looking looking">, yeah we are in a lousy position in the league, out of the Cups, this is the only real chance we still have left. But it's still possible, look uhh, with all respect, we can take this team with 2 or 3 nil.
Interviewer: "Should be possible <smiling/smirking>. My English colleagues are saying, your manager is under fire. Do you guys feel that way?
2:44-3:42
RVP: "Yeah look, it is new, it needs time. He is working very hard on it, us too, and sometimes we do play quite well, but not always... <sighs> we haven't really been on the right side of luck.. I am a type of believes in making your own luck, it's not an excuse, absolutely not. But everything that can go wrong, like that first goal, the way it went in... goals like that really don't help. So uhmm... the wind has not been blowing our way. It's us who have to turn it around, look it's very easy to point at someone, but I'm not like that. We have to fill out the spaces ourselves (a dutch way of saying we have to do our jobs better), and those chances, in some phases during a season you don't get many chances, so the chances you do get have to be in.. oftentimes it happens, but not today, and that sucks.
The remaining 15 seconds of that interview is him asking about how he is physically, seeing that the world cup is close. He is fine.
that dude has some passion hey 
