This article in Dutch gives a good insight in the build up of Ajax formation towards the start of the season this weekend. use google translate if interested. It's the start of an every 3 to 4 days a match schedule to play for a time. https://www.ad.nl/nederlands-voetbal/moordende-concurrentie-bij-ajax-luxe-of-probleem~a6d42325/
Me neither. The Eredivisie isn't the Big 5, but it's still a high-quality league with some top teams, and this was a game between two of its Top 3 - for a trophy. If guys who get cups of coffee for Danish or Austrian bottom-feeders are moved to the senior forum, the same applies here.
I did. Given my uncertainty about the standard we used, it involved going back over the origins of the YAA forum. We've agreed that the standard is first team minutes in a league match. Many apologies to @BostonRed for being muddled about this in the past.
It's the criteria for moving a player's thread from Academy section to the big boy YA section. The only reason I can see why the thread wouldn't be moved is he hasn't yet played in a first team league game.
Then you need to write down the standards and post them somewhere. This going back & forth is tiring.
Jeez y’all, get a grip. If Sergiño doesn’t play a league game nobody will care what forum this thread is in, and moving it has no impact on whether he plays Saturday. Maybe the real reason he hasn’t graduated is because BS can’t book a commencement speaker... Welcome to your future, Sergiño ! 🌟#TalentTuesday #ABNAMRO pic.twitter.com/LqW74kg5ae— AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax) July 30, 2019
News courtesy of @DirectK and @rgli13 https://www.voetbalprimeur.nl/nieuw...t-zich-met-amerikaans-jeugdinternational.html "Ajax has reached an agreement with SC Freiburg about the transfer of Alex Mendez. The American midfielder comes over immediately and signs a contract for three seasons in Amsterdam."
That's only the case when something untrue is said about him. The facts tell the true story. I present the facts and the conclusion from those is clear. However I dnot believe he said anything like that at all, as up till now no one has posted a link of it.
Dest isn't listed on Ajax's first-team squad numbers but he will be on the CL roster tomorrow and his number is 28. From my limited understanding, he's technically a Jong Ajax player to start off the season but ten Hag can call him up to the first team whenever. Ik krijg veel telefoontjes over ‘slecht signaal’ van ontbreken Dest, Gravenberch, Lang en Ekkelenkamp. Formeel dingetje. #Ajax maakt definitieve A-selectie 1 september bekend. Nrs. van dat viertal (Ook morgen op lijst UEFA): 28, 38, 27, 26. https://t.co/ajE5n5CkLw— Mike Verweij (@MikeVerweij) July 31, 2019
Teams with good youth academies can have a lot of players on their Champions League roster. UEFA regulations break players up into A & B groups where the "A Team" are the players on the senior squad. This A roster is limited to 25. Teams can have an unlimited number of players on the "B Team" if they are 21 years old or less and have been eligible to play for the club for the previous two years. Last season Ajax had eight or so 'B' players registered for the CL including de Ligt. Classification as a Jong player is only for the purposes of eligibility to play for Jong Ajax who are in the 2nd division of Dutch football (the won the league a couple of years ago). Ajax are very agressive in pushing players through the youth system and while I believe the age limit for Jong Ajax is U-23, it's not uncommon for U-19 or even U-17 players to play at that level. As I said earlier, Dest is likely to be a significant player this year for Ajax.
I post in both the YA and Mexicans abroad threads info from Dutch media, regardless if it's postive or negative. In both fora posters sometimes submit opinions or assertations that need to be confronted. In both fora I get from certain very sensitive posters acid reactions as these ones only want to read the haleluja stuff. For those I've got a very simple solution, put me on ignore. Just remember all the shit I got for my critical postings about the EPB hyping. And who in the end was right?
Indeed, it's a Dutch trait for especially the top 6 of the Eredivisie by necesity, but ever more spreading into all academies in the Netherlands. Because of the foreign lure, mostly from the epl, for ever younger players with Eredivisie experience, Dutch clubs are forced into high pressure developing of the youth compared to a decade ago. One aspect you can see the change clearly is in the physical department. A decade ago youth players really still were boys, but now they're physically far more powerfull as this is needed to get them ready for first team play.
I love your contributions here, but it's time to put this issue to bed, please. It reminds me a little bit of the ruckus that occurred around another YA, whose name I won't mention because it's kind of a bat signal for conniption, who was raised in the US until 14-ish but went to play for Italy. Every time his national team decisions were discussed we'd get a long, unpleasant threadjack. Anyway, thanks as always for the long, thoughtful and informative posts, but [to everybody] please let's drop this here. Thanks. And thanks to @TimB4Last for tagging me before wading in.
I don't mean this as an affront to @bungadiri (so I'm tagging him - which I hate to do to mods - in case he wants to bin it off the jump) and I hope it's not too OT but don't know where else to post. I don't mean to re-ignite any OT sidebars. • Sergiño Dest: “The USA or the Netherlands? I have not decided yet. I don’t know right now. I’m at team USA and the KNVB have not called me, so actually I have no choice to make at this moment. If they call me, I will consider it.” 👀#Ajax #AjaxYouth [AT5] pic.twitter.com/918zk9PUUS— Ajax Youth Academy (@AjaxYA) August 2, 2019
I’m speculating but I’d be far more disappointed if we lose Dest compared to Araujo. If Dest debuts with Ajax in the next 4 games then the Netherlands could call him up for their Euro qualifying against Germany in the beg. of Sept and if he plays he’s cap tied. If only the Netherlands played Northern Island for their 2nd game then the NE coach may not risk calling in Dest. With the US he could play versus Mexico in the window, but we can only cap him against Cuba. Let’s hope he’s committed to the US but maybe using this as leverage to play with the full NT. Wonder if Berhalter actually pays attention to this stuff though. If he is torn between us and the Dutch then let’s hope his Ajax debut comes a bit later, or he just gets a bit of sub minutes here and there.
I don't get your concern he would be called in for an Orange match. It's unlikely he will get a call for the next two years. Not even if he plays for Ajax the whole season. There are guys who have played whole seasons already at that spot in the Eredivisie at the same age Dest was U19 player at Ajax and not gotten a call up, like Kik Pierie, while Kik has a weapon Dest misses, a laser guided long range pass. Nathan Ake, who plays in the orange team at the back position, despite playing in the epl and a wanted player by Pep Guardiola, isnot the lock in player for that position. He's a sub. In the back line of the Orange team one thing is essential and that is experience, given the fact the Orange team in Europe faces top attacks. To get in that line you have to had face to face battles with those attackers in club matches. He simply is way back in the line. One season Ajax first team matches as a first team player wouldnot be enough to warrant a call up next season. I have the feeling it's not fully understood what it takes to get into that Orange shirt.