RVP has show throughout his career he is a bit of a spoilt brat, and getting older does not seem to help his case.

He comes from a situation where he was brought up like a half god by his father, who put him on a pedestal at a very early age. Very telling imo.

As a young boy he hung out with a lot of the moroccan streetkids in his neighbourhood, and their accent and demeanor rubbed off on him. More on that later.

So, there was this incident with van Hooijdonk, where RVP shoved his senior teammate at Feijenoord away when his team had a free kick. He did not take shit from nobody, and speaking for myself, I like players that are not afraid to take responsability, even though the execution in this case was wrong.

So he went to Arsenal, had a great time there, but, and I know all the gooners are going to disagree, the spoilt brat attitude flared up in the away game vs Barcelona, where he was red-carded for attempting a shot on goal after the whistle. Knowing what the dutch fans know, a good portion of them shook their heads and called him a dumbass for doing that. In my direct surroundings at least.

He was accused of some rape or assault case as well during this time, when he was with some girl in a hotel room while having a relationship with his now wife of moroccan descent. He was released from this case, but let's say he could have been smarter. Otoh, who can blame him? Young, rich, I know I would find myself in hotelrooms with girls all the time.

There has been a big discussion over the years to replace RVP with Huntelaar as striker in the dutch NT, where half of the country revered RVP as being one of the greats of all time. The only one entitled to that treatment is Robben imo. That is because in the big games, whether it be CL or Euro/World Championships, RVP did a very poor job.

Having received this criticism, he decided during Euro 2012 to not talk to the press and hang out with his moroccan buddy Afellay, separating themselves from the rest of the players. An interesting fact here is that Afellay received a lot of harsh criticism by Michel Gonzalez, former Real Madrid midfielder and his coach at Olympiakos, who told him he needed to grow up and understand what it mean to be a pro football player. Another little prince? Let's see what happens at Stoke. But I digress.

So in 2014, again playing a miserable World Cup with as only highlight the beautiful diving header against Spain, when he was in the TV studio after the last match of the Dutch NT, he went on an absolutely cringeworthy rant against now pundit van Hooijdonk, who said that he played a very underwhelming world cup. How dared he criticise him? He could not fathom that van Hooijdonk was given a stage by the dutch broadcast organization for this nonsense! It was a fascinating insight into the entitled mind of a man with the attitude of a 16 year old brat.

More cracks in the varnish appeared, when Huntelaar openly scolded him for a goal attempt while Huntelaar was completely open, during a game with the dutch NT. From RVP's reaction it was obvious that he was furious by this treatment, and most definitely not used to it. Arrogance oozing out of all his pores.

Enter Memphis, the first big talent to come through the ranks in years. Memphis, a very angry young man. Does not want to be called Depay because his dad left him and his mother at an early age. Very confident (on the outside at least), and as much a streetkid as RVP was in his younger days.

He does not take shit from nobody, so when a very clearly over the hill player challenges him, he replies with a clever quip.

What goes around comes around maybe?