Is the future bright for the 'Oranje'?

Total football, European champions in 1988 and World Cup finalists in 2010. All things achieved by the Dutch national team, and all things they have failed to live up to in recent years.

Failure to qualify for neither Euro 2016 and the World Cup this summer showed how far the state of the game in the Netherlands had fallen from grace of late.

Despite the disappointment the 'Oranje' have had in this period, Frank de Boer thinks that the new generation of Dutchmen coming in to the national team can get them back to the top.

"We had the generation with Johan Cruyff. We had the generation with Marco van Basten. We had the generation with Patrick Kluivert. We had the generation with Arjen Robben, Rafael van der Vaart and Wesley Sneijder." the former Dutch international told 'Sky Sports'.

"Now we have been in a little bit of a situation where we have only had Robben really. He has been the only one to make a difference. So I think the problem has been 80 per cent down to a lack of quality. Now is the time where we have to be patient.

"There is a new generation coming through at Ajax with Justin Kluivert, Donny van de Beek, Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt,"

"There is also Ryan Gravenberch who is only 16 but they are already saying he is the new Patrick Vieira. PSV have some good players with Pablo Rosario and Steven Bergwijn. So there is a very good generation coming up."