Mark van Bommel Fans

The place on tumblr for everything Mark van Bommel! Posting photos, interviews, news and whatever else I can find to share with you about the former Captain of the Dutch NT. This site is run by a long time fan of Mark's and is intended to share the love with his fans. Please be respectful to Mark and his family at all times. If you would like to see something or have a question, feel free to stop by my ask. I am always glad to talk to the followers here. Be sure to follow @vanBommelFans on Twitter! Formerly iheartmarkvanbommel.tumblr.com

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Congratulations to @markvanbommel6 on being voted Sport Coach of the Year 2018. #markvanbommel #psv #psveindhoven #psveindhoven🔴⚪️ #voetbal #eredivisie #netherlands #vanbommel https://www.instagram.com/p/Btys1I6jU45/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3t625e4trf8n

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Catching up with old friends in Doha. #markvanbommel #vanbommel #markvanbommel6 #arjenrobben #robben #fcbayern #psv #psveindhoven #captaindutch #markvanbommel6 @markvanbommel6 https://www.instagram.com/p/BsYV7BGDe6Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d18bebjn0l95

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Only Morten Olsen has had a longer string of wins directly after his Eredivisy debut - 11 with Ajax - than Mark has had with PSV. Currently he has 8 wins. Let’s hope he will surpass Olsen in the near future! #eredivisie #psveindhoven #markvanbommel #nederlands #voetbal #markvanbommel6 #psv #vanbommel https://www.instagram.com/p/BpH-u-hAdo9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r86wdhxnk51r

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Coach. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • #psv #psveindhoven #markvanbommel #markvanbommel6 #eredivisie #netherlands #football #soccer https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1228qgkEj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ohwg18kpggj5

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Favorite coach. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • #markvanbommel #psveindhoven #nederlands #eredivisie #championsleague #vanbommel #markvanbommel6 #psv https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn5ScTJnSqw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10oebsoa8y71u

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Coach van Bommel says he’s not going to change his system against Barcelona. Article here: https://www.nu.nl/voetbal/5467031/van-bommel-gaat-weinig-systeem-psv-veranderen-barcelona.html https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn19FZ3Hm7K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ginbskgmdi4d

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Still got it. #Repost @anthonydeboer ・・・ Alles lukt vandaag! Onder @markvanbommel6 🐥 PSV Eindhoven 😎#psveindhoven #psv #markvanbommel #vanbommel #markvanbommel6 https://www.instagram.com/p/BnxXpDrnal7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sfu05b885jh

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Good to see them together. #Repost @markvanbommel6・・・ About last night! #picturesaysitall #WK2010 #midfielders #brekers #elcapo #thebestactually #wesleybedankt #WES134 https://www.instagram.com/p/BnbeZqqH1dk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ueiyw7qul560

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#Repost @markvanbommel6・・・ Tanti auguri @pato #checheche #grande https://www.instagram.com/p/BnR9IxUHMtY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r240s2tehl6w

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Final training ahead of PSV v BATE • • • • #markvanbommel #championsleague #vanbommel #eredivisie #voetbal #footie #football #soccer #psveindhoven https://www.instagram.com/p/BnEaZGUnHUd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16atnybicr619

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“With the state of Dutch football, it is becoming increasingly difficult to qualify for a European final tournament. It is all the more important that we qualify ourselves in order to ultimately enforce an improved status.” -PSV coach Mark van Bommel on wanting to play in the Champions League. • • • • • • #markvanbommel #markvanbommel6 #vanbommel #psv #psveindhoven #erevidisie #voetbal #soccer #footie #forevermycaptain https://www.instagram.com/p/BnESBYtHBKZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10cuc68lmqnra

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Welcome back, Coach.

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12.05.2015

[markvanbommelfans]

“Beautiful cooperation! This season, the @KiKa8118 logo will be on the shirts of the #igorvroemen  @SVMeerssenis youth team.”

(KiKa's short for " Kinderen Kankervrij," a charity that helps with the research and support of kids with cancer)

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Davy Pröpper got the PSV shirt handed to him by Mark van Bommel. The former captain of PSV gave "his" number 6 to Pröpper. "I'm very happy with this shirt" said the midfielder after getting his first home kit. "I'm going to fill this in in my own way but I think it's awesome to be here. I'm looking forward to start the new season quickly."

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Louis van Gaal is not easy to work with

Louis van Gaal is not easy to work with, admits Mark van Bommel, as he lifts the lid on THAT dressing room incident at Bayern

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal coached Mark van Bommel at Bayern Munich from 2009 to 2011

Van Bommel discusses Van Gaal's management style in depth

The former Holland captain was speaking after a Manchester United legends vs Bayern Munich All Stars match on Sunday

the day he famously dropped his trousers in the dressing room.

Mark van Bommel, the Dutchman’s captain at the time, immediately laughs at the question.

He puts his head in his hands and then slowly looks up and puts his thumb and his forefinger together – international sign language than does not need any further explanation.

‘He was trying to say he changed two players after 55 minutes and he wanted to explain why he did it,’ Van Bommel, who was in Manchester for the United versus Bayern Legends game, recalls.

‘He was searching for the right words and his explanation was he doesn’t change for a change.’

Van Gaal’s undressing in the dressing room, however, did not have the desired affect – succeeding only in sending the likes of Van Bommel, Arjen Robben and Bastian Schweinsteiger into hysterics.

‘Afterwards we were laughing, we were thinking ‘what’s happened?’ and we were doing it in the dressing room as well,’ Van Bommel, now 38, adds.

There are few who will give you as honest and frank assessment of Van Gaal than his former Bayern and Holland captain who hung up his boots after a glittering career in 2013.

The pair endured a tempestuous relationship and famously fell out in 2011 when Van Bommel quit the Bundesliga giants halfway through the season to join AC Milan.

Despite the ups and downs he retains a grudging admiration for the Manchester United manager, whom he believes will succeed at Old Trafford.

An intelligent man with an appetite for a good tale, Van Bommel was not surprised by United’s initial struggle to adapt to Van Gaal’s notoriously meticulous methods because he has seen it all before.

‘2009 was Louis’s first year at Bayern,’ Van Bommel explains.

‘It was a successful year. We won the Bundesliga, the cup and were in the final of the Champions League.

‘But it was a big change for the club. We had had (Jurgen) Klinsmann and then Van Gaal came and it was totally different. He wanted to change the whole club. It was a change of culture from the German to the Dutch. It was totally different and we had slight problems in the beginning.

‘Given time he has good ideas how to play on the pitch. But he is not easy to work with - only if you have a good argument he will listen.

‘If you say it was s**t he will ask you why. Then you have to explain.’

Van Gaal is said to be ferociously confident in his own ability and some say perhaps a little excessive in the demands he places on his players.

Van Bommel, a gifted, tough-tackling midfielder who won titles in Holland, Spain, Germany and Italy, agrees.

‘On the pitch he is good but outside it was a little bit difficult,’ he says.

‘He has a way and it is his way. He wanted to go straight. He doesn’t want to go right or to go left, only straight.’

The world of football was stunned when Van Bommel, perhaps tiring of the Van Gaal way, announced he was leaving Bayern.

The move came amid reports the pair’s relationship had deteriorated substantially and at the time Van Bommel was quick to point out he did not want to go and added that the only contact he had with Van Gaal was when his departure was sealed with a handshake.

‘I was the captain and it was strange to change clubs in the winter,’ he reflects before hinting at some of the friction in the dressing room.

‘It was my decision to go and (I have) no regrets.

‘I was the captain of the team and I had to protect my players. Maybe I was a little bit 120 per cent doing that. I wanted to help the other guys. Maybe I could have settled down and let it go. But that is the way I am. That is my character and it was his character as well.’

Van Bommel has no doubts that his old boss will bring glory back to Old Trafford – but puts that down largely to the club’s spending power.

‘He can bring success here because it is Manchester United.

‘Manchester United can buy the best players and they have the best players so the opportunities are bigger than at, for example Stoke City, and the pressure is bigger here.

‘If you don’t win it is difficult. He has qualities and he is able to build a good team. Every Dutch coach is similar to him. They want to build a team. They want to win of course but it is difficult because every year players are changing.’

Van Gaal is set to make a number of additions to his squad this summer. So does Van Bommel have any advice for the new boys?

‘He is different from other coaches,’ he says.

‘You have to get used to him and if you do it is simple. If you are scared of him you don’t have the qualities at this level. Have respect for him but don’t be scared.’

One of those to have already signed is another Dutchman, Memphis Depay.

And Van Bommel thinks that if the £25million former PSV winger can keep his head down he can succeed.

‘Memphis Depay can do well because he worked with him at the World Cup,’ he explains.

‘It is easier for him to come in to this club. If you don’t know the coach and you come from abroad it is not so easy.

‘It is difficult to predict but he has qualities. You need wingers like Cristiano Ronaldo, Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Lionel Messi and Neymar. In Holland it was easy for him now he has to make the next step. He has come to a fantastic club and now it is time to adjust to that level. He has the technical skills. He has to be focused. But if he goes into the locker room and does stupid things there are players who will say ‘Hey Memphis, easy. Settle down and play’.

‘He has the potential but if am not saying he is the new Messi because I can see the headlines!’

Van Bommel, who harbours regret that he never played in the Premier League despite interest from Leeds United and Tottenham Hotspur, is now set to embark on a managerial career of his own and is keen to coach in England.

‘Yeah, that would be nice,’ he says.

But could he ever see himself dropping his trousers in the dressing room?

He laughs again before adding: ‘No!’

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