Sneijder & co: from Galactico Outcasts to World’s Finest?
Sneijder & co: from Galactico Outcasts to World’s Finest?
By Darshan Joshi
A year ago, Florentino Perez dealt Dutch football the most unexpected of lifelines. Like in many a Bond film, where it would seem chance plays more of a role than finesse, Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder, and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar were excavated from the Madristas realm of prima donnas and thrust out into the apparently impending gloom of having been ascertained as unsavoury to the wagging tongues of Real’s second era of ego-hoarding.
While Huntelaar, van Marwijk’s second-choice striker behind Robin van Persie, has basked in a more inconsistent season amongst the aura of senior citizens at the Rossoneri, both Sneijder and Robben dazzled their way back to the Santiago Bernabéu for the Champions League final. Both players were also incriminated in their teams’ sashay to double-winning domestic campaigns with Internazionale (Sneijder) and Bayern Munich (Robben). What a kick in the face that must have been for Perez and his conspiring pack of power-hungry wolves.
