He eventually left for Vitesse Arnhem in the summer of 1999 for £3.5m.He had arrived at Forest from Celtic, with his spell in Glasgow also controversial. He was the club’s best striker since Stan Collymore and Teddy Sheringham, a two-footed, world-class set-piece specialist, and did not look out of place alongside Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Kluivert in an orange shirt. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. We could order what we wanted: chicken wings, carbonara with loads of sauce, french fries, whatever.”Bassett was not the only obstacle for Van Hooijdonk. Ten million! All rights reserved. It allowed him to visit Glasgow last month for Feyenoord’s match against Rangers, where he “I knew Fernando through the national team and could not miss out on the opportunity to show my respects,” he says.It seems some of the Glasgow confrontation has died down. It was a great partnership.“John Collins had taken me to his home for dinner when I had joined, so when the other foreigners arrived I did the same.
Van Hooijdonk is withering in his assessment of the former Wimbledon manager.“Bassett’s training was primitive. Speaking to Dutch newspaper AD, van Hooijdonk picked a team comprised of players he's … I’m a man of my word.”Van Hooijdonk’s goal record is astonishing: 335 in 551 games, including at least a goal every other game for seven clubs between 1991 and 2005. Some players publicly made their feelings known about the Dutchman, and in one game “When I returned that November, I called a meeting with the players in the dressing room, explained the reasons I stayed away in bullet-point form and asked if anyone had any questions.

A … Bassett wasn’t there most of the time. Then, on a Friday, he would turn up. Before matches we would just go to an Italian restaurant opposite the City Ground. Paolo Di Canio and Jorge Cadete would later join to form a frontline known as the Three Amigos.“When I arrived at Celtic in 1994 I was not impressed with the quality,” Van Hooijdonk says. –) holland labdarúgó, csatár. In 1998, that’s like putting a price tag on a bottle of water and asking for £25. I became top scorer but he never offered me the same money as the others. Paolo was a funny guy – he once called a team meeting because Andreas had not passed the ball to him.”Di Canio, Cadete and Van Hooijdonk would all leave Celtic in acrimony, with the Dutchman falling out with the chairman, Fergus McCann, over a new contract, declaring Celtic’s offer of £7,000 a week was “enough for the homeless but not for an international striker” in 1996.“Our best players were on five‑figure sums per week and I was not,” Van Hooijdonk says.

He made his 7.5 million dollar fortune with Feyenoord, Fenerbache & Dutch national team.

“But Bassett told the papers my price was £10m. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. The Dutch striker on his time at Nottingham Forest, Celtic and returning to Glasgow to pay tribute to Fernando RicksenPierre van Hooijdonk does a very good Ron Atkinson impression. All the guys who said something when I was away stayed quiet. Pierre van Hooijdonk: ‘I told Ron Atkinson he was a pub manager’Pierre van Hooijdonk: ‘I told Ron Atkinson he was a pub manager’ Játszott többek között skót, angol, török, és elsősorban holland csapatokban. A couple more games are left, you can leave after that, just give your best.’“We laughed it off.

At 49, Pierre van Hooijdonk is a respected TV pundit in Holland and still plays 11-a-side for a local side. Pierre van Hooijdonk was born on November 29, 1969 in Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands as Petrus Ferdinandus Johannes van Hooijdonk. The Dutchman’s accent and intonation, however, are spot on as we discuss his final few months under Atkinson at “Later that afternoon, Ron called me at home to come and see him in his office. He was smiling and said: ‘I liked your joke.
Andreas at the time was smoking cigarettes and so was my wife, so he felt safe at my home. Pierre van Hooijdonk (Steenbergen, 1969. november 29. Even when I was playing for Fenerbahce with the Galatasaray fans or for Benfica with the Porto fans, the danger was never as bad.”Van Hooijdonk made an immediate impact for Celtic, scoring a famous 1995 Scottish Cup final winner – the club’s first trophy for six years – and the next season would be the league’s top scorer with 26 goals. “In Scotland, every day the papers are on you, mad for “In Glasgow, I was easy to recognise: tall and dark. We played five-a-side most of the time. Manager : www.playersunited.com Pierre van Hooijdonk (born 29 November 1969) is a former Dutch football player. He has … He is still besotted by football and easy to talk to: about how he spent his pocket money as a kid on hiring a sports hall because it had a goal with a net, or about Harry Kane, or his 19-year-old son, Sydney van Hooijdonk, a striker for his hometown club, NAC Breda.Articulate and passionate, it is perhaps unsurprising he works as a TV pundit in the Netherlands. Van Hooijdonk scored in every knockout round, including two goals in the final (in Rotterdam) against Borussia Dortmund, one Remarkably, at 49, Van Hooijdonk plays for a Sunday league team. It is genuinely funny as, in the lobby of an Amsterdam hotel, he tries in vain to collapse his 6ft 4in frame into something resembling Big Ron.

Ron was a people person and I can imagine him doing better with the right group of players. “Some Rangers fans even said hello to me.” Looking for some great streaming picks? His pinnacle was the Uefa Cup triumph with an unfancied Feyenoord in 2002, alongside a young Robin van Persie. It was my first time meeting him properly and I thought he was going to be relaxed, but he was on the floor, rolling around, screaming with passion at every point.

Officially it’s for sale but it’s not for sale.”Van Hooijdonk would not play in the first team until November, eventually reintegrated by a now‑desperate Bassett, who would be sacked and replaced by Atkinson two months later.