It's going to be interesting what's going to happen in the center of the Ajax defense. The signing of Alvarez is a done deal now. So for the center they have now Lisandro Magallan (Argentina), Perr Schuurs, Kik Pierie, Edson Alvarez (Mexico), Blind. Perr Schuurs in the pre season practice matches was the best of the Ajax bunch and already reminiscent of de Ligt. I think Ajax over ate themselves with defenders and it's going to cause problems as these are guys who didnot come to Ajax as a bench/sub player.
This might be a good thing. Ajax also lost De Jong who played DM, I believe. That's the same position Alvarez has been playing with America and Mexico, so if Ajax has players at the CB position, then Alvarez could end up playing in the position he is mostly good at which is DM.
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They got little time to merge in the center of the defense with each other as the CL qualifier against PAOK takes place around 7 august.
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Ajax site has it now, not sure if they ship to US. If not, I'm going to havey colleague in Holland buy and give it to me on my next trip to Italy or Holland
Eiting has been good in pre-season I think. He's a De Jong-clone, very smart dude, might suprise this season. They will be able to play the same kind of game if he plays. Ajax has a good team again, a different level from other Dutch teams. They might be equally good as last year if Dolberg picks it up and they get Bergwijn from PSV. Who's gonna play?! Insanely good team if they keep the rest together. Don't forget Ajax outplayed Bayern Munchen in Munchen in the CL without Frenkie de Jong.
Perr Schuurs also is showing why he was captain of Fortuna Sittard at 17 years old. He has that de Ligt schwung. With Kik Pierie etc. the defense could be a very strong set up this year. They've got Tagliafico, Schuurs, Pierie, Alvarez, Dest, Blind, Magallan, Mazraoui, Martinez and Botman for the defense of which one of the expensive guys, Magallan is the one disappointing.