{"id":41863,"date":"2024-07-15T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-youre-useless-van-der-vaart-slams-100m-england-star\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T06:00:12","slug":"euro-2024-youre-useless-van-der-vaart-slams-100m-england-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/euro-2024-youre-useless-van-der-vaart-slams-100m-england-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2024: You\u2019re useless \u2013 Van der Vaart slams \u00a3100m England star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over \u00a3100m worth England and Arsenal star, Declan Rice, has been labelled a useless player.<\/p>\n<p>Former Dutch midfielder, Rafael van der Vaart slammed Rice, following England\u2019s poor outing at the Euro 2024 championship which ended on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He described the 25-year-old as a \u2018useless\u2019 player who is only comfortable making back passes to defenders.<\/p>\n<p>England suffered a 2-1 loss against Spain in the Euro 2024 final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Williams put Spain ahead in the 47th minute but Gareth Southgate\u2019s side found their equalizer in the 73rd as Cole Palmer found the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Oyarzabal then scored the winning goal for La Roja in the 86th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal star, Declan Rice flattered to deceive against Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Rice joined Arsenal from West Ham last summer for a reported initial \u00a3100 million fee.<\/p>\n<p>He became the most expensive English player, equalling the previous record held by Jack Grealish.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting angrily to his performance, Van der Vaart suggested the Englishman is not worth \u00a3100m.<\/p>\n<p>He said via AFC Ajax: \u201c\u20ac100M for Declan Rice. What does he do? He comes to collect a ball only to pass it back to John Stones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is useless. If you are truly worth \u20ac100M, then you should be able to play a ball forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Euro 2024: You\u2019re useless \u2013 Van der Vaart slams \u00a3100m England star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over \u00a3100m worth England and Arsenal star, Declan Rice, has been labelled a useless player. Former Dutch midfielder, Rafael van&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4187,2713,15,160,11140],"tags":[1300,1279,8,5275,2718,2716,180,655,201,200,20060,11141,7105,788],"class_list":["post-41863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-euro-2024","category-news","category-sport","category-van-der-vaart","tag-100m","tag-1279","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-der","tag-england","tag-euro","tag-news","tag-slams","tag-sport","tag-star","tag-useless","tag-vaart","tag-van","tag-youre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}