Nowhere near as good as promised? I think that Sinkgraven should be given a bit of leeway given how he's been handled since moving to Ajax...he's looked very good in midfield though and remember he only just turned 20.
I agree on Sinkgraven. I too thought he was better. To me he seems really insecure on the pitch. In his defense, he started the season pretty well as left attacking midfielder next to Klaassen. It started going downhill when Frank decided he wanted to play with a #10. Sinkgraven had to play defensive midfielder, made 1 mistake that cost a goal and then was banished to left wing. While a guy like Gudelj is allowed to make multiple dangerous mistakes every game... We should have gotten Ziyech. He would have transformed this Ajax I'm sure.
^^I really didn't watch AZ that much last season and Gudelj is pretty much a mystery to me. He's not very good on defense yet FdB plays him in the holding position. I know he's on the Serbian NT and has seen some action but I don't know how he is used there. IMO Klaassen is a better defensive MF than Gudelj as evidenced by the time he played there last season when he was nursing the injury.
It seems that Wim Jonk will be sacked. If that is true, it'll be the end of "the fluwelen revolutie" inspired by Cruyff and materialized by Jonk. The anti-ajax style De Boer is imposing to the first team will probably spread toward the Ajax academy. http://www.ajaxshowtime.com/article/hoofdnieuws/91733/directie-zet-jonk-voor-het-blok
Great. Another possibility to get Dutch football back on track shot down. I hate how bureaucrats and people with lack of imagination always have a way to win from idealists in organisations.
Was it ever different? In the end it's always the ones with imagination who really advance Dutch football, the rest are just there to bullshit along the way and come in and take credit at the end. I don't know who will follow up Jonk, bet we will watch that person come in and take credit for Nouri, van de Beek, etc and no one will know, except the ones that follow the youth like us. Btw, Jonk is a ********ing idiot for letting it come to this. I don't know what happend, but there is no way he can justify this. 5 years of work down the toilet!
He didn't want to play the necessary politics. It's too bad as he was the key figure in getting the youth system on track. Ajax as a publicly held corporation is complicated and it's always hard to run sports teams this way. They tend to have organizational structures that are not capable of making unified decisions. It appears that the other key management people did not like Jonk's outspokeness. This ultimately will hurt the team.
I donot believe it to be that dramatic. After all WJ had all the space to manouvre in to realize his views on the youth. Otherwise he would have been stopped already. So his work with the youth wasnot the problem. But if you want to extend your(=JC) vision into the first team you have to convince and cooparate. Not put your fist on the table that this is the way Cruyff wants and I want it now and then walk out when they donot listen and then refusing to communicate with the one who's in charge of the whole thing. So I do expect the youth simply go on the WJ=JC route.
I donot think it will. WJ has created the perfect situation for getting fired. He refused to communicate with the rest of the staff and with the mangement of Ajax. You are an employee, you cannot do that. He created what the judge will deem as an unworkable situation. Sad for football, but that is the way it is.
I hope you donot give up on him! Confidence only needs to be boosed. It isnot a footballing flaw, which would be harder to mend.
I agree. I have given up on Frank though. I don't think Sinkgraven will flourish under him. Most of the staff at the Toekomst have send an open letter expressing their support of Jonk and demand that he will be reinstated. De staf van De Toekomst schaart zich in een open brief aan de RvC en directie van Ajax achter Wim Jonk. pic.twitter.com/HbxZgp6OKk— Josien Wolthuizen (@wolthuizen) November 12, 2015 Cruijff in de Telegraaf has expressed his support for Jonk, said that he hasn't been informed about anything and that they should stop abusing his name if they continue to ignore him. http://www.ajaxshowtime.com/article/hoofdnieuws/91794/cruijff-misbruik-dan-niet-meer-mijn-naam Piet Keizer stated that Plan Cruijff hasn't gotten a fair chance because those in charge are going their own way. He says this is far from over. Keje Molenaar has said that the wrong man was fired. Tomorrow is the AVA where every share holder can ask questions from the board of directors. A lot of people are expected to show up.
The problem is that only about 8% of the shares are owned by the general public. There are two larger shareholders who own about 8% each and the remaining 72% is held by the corporation and is in effect supporting the status quo. I honestly don't think things will change that much and it will take a total boycott of Ajax home matches to move the needle (which probably won't happen either). The la Ling report referenced by thatkid is quite damning of the current structure. Bergkamp comes across like a total fool and I now know why he looks like a stone duck on the bench during matches. It was a huge mistake for the management to have moved former players into positions of power (Overmars, FdB, van der Sar) in this kind of structure as they really are not being held accountable at all.
That was what Piet Keizer said on television. He had a talk with JC after he won the battle and wanted to convince him to go for quality, not loyalty, but JC said this is the way we will do it. So the guys that are now running the show got in.
So what happened? I read that Jonk refused to quit and the other youth coaches/staff support him. JC wanted his vision but he picked all players who have tie with LVG to implement his vision. Is it true that Jonk siding with JC vs Van Der Sar/Overmars/FDB who choose LVG's ways? Now JC also stepped down. What a mess!
Overmars want Ajax A1, A2 and B1 to be part of "betaald voetbal" section of the club. In other words those youth teams will come the jurisdiction of Frank and his assistants.. This is crazy. Nothing happend. Johan and Wim Jonk lost. Overmaars and van der Sar said that they will continue with "plan Cruijff" without those two. And that they have their own interpretation of plan Cruijff.
Thank you. Perhaps we were deceived all along. Since Cruijff pulled out, he probably does not want his name to be used. The plan now is renamed "plan LVG" which it was from the beginning (which Cruijff did not know). JC may won the battle with the board but he lost the war because he picked the wrong people for his vision.