Frank de Boer currently has the best papers to become the new national coach of the Dutch national team. The unemployed coach has already planned an appointment with the KNVB to go to the table together. He is to be the successor of Ronald Koeman, who left for Barcelona; the management of the KNVB would like to present a new national team coach for the next international period with matches against Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy. The succession of Koeman was discussed Thursday evening at Soccer talk at FOX Sports.

Hedwiges Maduro questions the search of the KNVB for a new national coach. “I just don’t understand the profiles, it’s all so far apart. Frank Rijkaard and Peter Bosz are two different types”, the former midfielder pointed out. According to him it is not clear what the KNVB is looking for. “Van Gaal has a lot of experience, but De Boer is actually the same type as Van Gaal. He really is a field trainer, he wants to have everything under control. When you talk about De Boer, you also have to talk about his staff around him. Such a staff consists of five men. I think he’s kind of people manager around. A national coach should only form a team and make sure the players are ready for the next game.”

Maduro would welcome it if De Boer was not allowed to bring an assistant and had to do it with the technical staff that Ronald Koeman left behind. On the other hand, he feels that De Boer lacks a characteristic. “I would form a staff in which the players have confidence,” said Maduro. “De Boer is a very good field trainer. The story goes that he doesn’t get along well with certain types or characters in a group. Then you have to make sure that you do have that type in your staff. I don’t think he did that well at Internazionale and Crystal Palace. If I were to go to Italy, I would find it very wise to include an Italian on the staff.” Jan Joost van Gangelen asked Maduro to think out loud: “So you’ll end up with Ruud Gullit?” Maduro: “For example.”

Should Frank de Boer be the new national coach of the Dutch national team?

“For example, Koeman was a people manager and Dwight Lodeweges (interim bond coach, ed.) a good field trainer. If you say that De Boer is a very good field coach, you should actually look for someone who is also very good with the players”, Maduro thinks aloud about a possible right hand of De Boer. “That’s a task. I think a Gullit could do that very well.” Van Gangelen assures that Gullit has not been approached ‘in any way’ by the KNVB for the national team, just like Mark van Bommel. “I think Van Bommel is the same type as De Boer. You shouldn’t look for just one man, but a whole staff,” Maduro stressed.

The KNVB did not contact Van Gaal. “Nothing. nada“zero”, claimed Leo Driessen. “Van Gaal certainly has an appetite. He’s still looking forward to it: good group, you can become a European champion with that.” Kees Kwakman doesn’t understand that Van Gaal hasn’t been approached at all. “That such an option is open to the Dutch national team. Whether or not it makes it or succeeds, you always need two parties for that. But that apparently it’s not even being looked into. They’re probably just too scared to bring in someone like that.”

Maduro wonders whether De Boer, if he will actually become the new national coach, will feel that he will have to prove himself. “As a trainer you always have to prove yourself. But with Van Gaal everyone knows: ‘this is Van Gaal’. And if De Boer becomes the national coach now, we will all be like: ‘Let’s see it’. In the last jobs he had, he failed. You already have that feeling against you. Do you have to want that? Of course he’ll want to do it. It’s quite an honor. That’s a feeling the players will have, too. I think there is.”