That's a big leap don't you think. In modern football, all but England, Spain, Italy and Germany have 'massimmigration' of their best players. France doesn't seem to have a problem, neither do Croatia and a lot of others. Secondly Holland had practically the same team as the one that became vice-world champion 2 years ago and almost all of them already played abroad.
I think that they were a bit lucky at the WC 2010 and we're in the winning mood then. At EC 2012, they were unlucky to get into the most dificult group. There were some key players who were out of form and loosing the first game meant that annoyances that were under the surface were uttered and the group spirit just got worse from there. I've seen it before with Oranje: once there's some conflict within the group, the performance takes a huge dive.
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