Former Manchester City fitness coach Raymond Verheijen has weighed into Manchester United striker Robin van Persie's withdrawal from the Holland squad. Verheijen has been critical of United manager David Moyes already this season over his management of Van Persie and tweeted yesterday:
Very smart decision to give RVP total rest in the upcoming week. No national team. Hopefully he can stop using pain killers after next week. — Raymond Verheijen (@raymondverheije) November 13, 2013
Hopefully next season RVP will have a balanced pre-season so he does not have to use pain killers at all. But maybe this is a bit ambitious? — Raymond Verheijen (@raymondverheije) November 13, 2013
RVP missed 1st week pre-season, had to travel 30 hrs & 10 hrs time difference. Still the Man U 'experts' decided to purposely overtrain him? — Raymond Verheijen (@raymondverheije) November 13, 2013
Thankfully, Dutch NT coach Louis van Gaal understands bigger picture. Total rest now will have positive effect on RVP's WC2014 next summer. — Raymond Verheijen (@raymondverheije) November 13, 2013
