motherwellarab wrote:

If you ever got a chance to say a few words to jim mclean what would you say to him?

 
Well that I learned things from him , how things has to be and don’t has to be, I had a good professional relationship with him , he was hard , sometimes crazy , but a winner also.
It will be harder the way he worked now a days , but still all starting with being fit sharp etc, so trust me we where fit sharp etc ,
I never after three weeks I came in his office , he said listen you are not fit enough you train tomorrow only running so we went to hamburger hill , I really thought I am gonna dye here , what am I doing , but it works well because I became fitter and fitter and the second year I did quite well there was interest , my agent calls Jim Mclean and I had to come in , who I thought I was etc etc etc , hahahah,
To be honest I was 15 year director and did all the tricks also all for the club ;

RRDH wrote:

that is incredible

 
No not at all , nice to be in contact with the club and country where I and my family have nice memories . I only hope that the team got promoted ASAP because to play in championship doesn’t deserve the club but for sure not the supporters

motherwellarab wrote:

Were you surprised dave narey didnt go into managing or coaching after he retired?

 
Dave would be the perfect director of football , bit the best would be coach from the youth players , the best players had to,train the young boys there is where it all start !,,
Dave was a great player and for sure a great coach also , his reading of the match would help him a lot

Ok final question from me Freddy as that's your hour almost up (thank you again for your time mate).

​If you could invite 5 people to a dinner party you are hosting (living or dead)...who would you invite?

TheShed wrote:

Evening Freddy

How did Jim McLean’s style of management compare with anything you’d had on the continent?




Did you ever see the Freddy Van Der Krueger T-shirts they sold in the United shop?

Yes was another cup of tea even sometimes after a Victory he went mental what went wrong, I think it was the nerve who was coming out , I think to about etc is more for the crouwd than really get you going The team must perform and the work must be done for a coach before the match , the only thing you have in hand is to do a change substitute to get on, but not this or that and waving and shouting , it is nice to watch the coach form atletico Madrid but more Important is that griezmann is happy ;
 
And,no I guess sold out

Last edited by Tek (29/6/2018 10:17 pm)

Thank you Freddy for your time (an absolute Gent to deal with).

​And thanks also to Motherwellarab for his assistance in organising this one.

Hoorn wrote:

motherwellarab wrote:

Hi freddy my first question to you is who was the best player you played beside in your years at dundee united

 
Kri was good and solid , narey was good reads the game superb,

​Kri is Mio Krivokapic I take it Freddy?

Agreed he was absolute class. Both him and Narey were very intelligent football players.
 

Gutted I missed this, my old boys in Ninewells so couldn’t get involved. Freddy was one of my first hero’s as a lad and my mum fancied him tae.

I wore that Freddy a nightmare on Tannadice Street t-shirt from the Utd shop in the fourm Centre till it nearly fell off my back through wear and tear.

If you look back in Freddy thanks for the memories of your time at Tannadice!!

motherwellarab wrote:

Name your best 11 players from your time at united any formation you want

 
Billy Thomson , experience good organizing and quite save hands
Alex clelland , always a 6,5 will never let you down during a match
David narey , speaks for itself ideal centre half , reads the game well etc
Krivokapic , never in danger with him. Beside that two gentleman in the heart of defence
Malpass , exactly the same a Alex on the other side , but Maurice also always a 6- 6,5
Mc kinnon, good both feet  quick thinker , when I first saw him I thought what a ability
Mcinally , a winner , team player , you need these players in your team engines without the ball
Darren Jackson, could perfectly play between the lines as a attaking midfielder
Gallagher , pace,  brave , good functional technique and can score a goal
Duncan Ferguson , had it all , attitude strength Hight, bravery , and don’t forget good feet
Other winger John o Neill , Andy Mc Laren , hamish French , Cristian dailly Allan Preston , even John Clark because you could play John any position on the park with his strenght shooting power etc 

So we play 4 3 3
O yeah I am coach of these boys for sure we  will be promoted this year

Tek wrote:

Freddy am I correct in saying that you played for a Scottish Premier League Select side that played and defeated Scotland 1-0 at Hampden?

​Wee Jim was the Scottish League XI Gaffer if I recall correctly?

Good memories of that match?

 
Yes very good memories , wee Jim also winning at Hampden.
Utd was under him because of no luck on the day in finals .... but the teams where good but bad decisions not good on the day etc ,
But that day he and our select team won

motherwellarab wrote:

What do you think of our current manager csaba laszlo?

 
I don’t know the current manager , he must be good because the board has faith in him , So when the supporters gives the backing to them all it could be .... utd year

Last edited by Tek (29/6/2018 11:37 pm)

Gutted to have had something on and missed this 😢

More so having had the chance to read through - right good q&a - well done Freddy (legend) and we'll done (to say the least) Tek for setting this up 😃

Last edited by scarpia (29/6/2018 11:42 pm)

Tek wrote:

Freddy is this the HAPPIEST you've ever been after scoring a goal? 



 

Freddy also had problems submitting his reply to the reply to this post. So again just a screenshot.

Not the smoothest Q+A we've had perhaps but one of the best.

Absolute Gentleman is Freddy. Still whatsapping me at half past midnight (Belgian time) asking 'all oke? Any more questions?'.

Had been online for 2 and a half hours at that point.

A lot of these ex-players have a real deep-rooted love for the club having had the pleasure to converse with them a wee bit.

Great to see/hear.