The Schreuder Era Starts and Ends: 2022-23 Ajax Season

He was signed back in 2017, just 4th appearance... forgot about him.

 

Anyone but Mellon Head Schreuder, please

 

Enough of Rensch. He is utter garbage. Horrendous tactical understanding and zero positional sense is proven again!
How was he capped for Oranje based on what?
Terrible soft player who looks even more pathetic with faking injury getting stretchered off. Just a joke!
Ajax midfield so lacking in quality once again. No leader on the ball.
Bassey has been pretty good running hard in the Leftback role.

 

If we win the title it wont be because we're good, it will be because everyone else sucks too

 

Watching this (and the last 3 seasons)... Why not Alvarez as a CB? He's so much better suited there for Ajax. Bring some actual quality in the MF. Taylor/Klaassen also not good enough. We buy 1,000 players and desperately need MF players- sign none.

If it's 5 straight league matches without a win, everyone should be fired. The board is asleep at the wheel. Without CL money, we're in serious trouble.

 

Couldn’t say it any better myself.
Twente have no speed in their play to really cause Ajax problems.

 

The decisions made by AS are just poor.
Brobbey (Little supply to him once again) off for Kudus who is needed to run from deeper positions perhaps as a 10 is not a striker.
How often he gets caught being offsides or showcases sloppy work on the ball is frustrating.
Keeping Klaassen and Tadic on just drives me nuts.

 

I might even have to start supporting SV Spakenburg if we meet in the Cup round

 

Err, we are not financially OK.
Maybe very short-term, but definitely not long-term!

@Orange14 we also have very little world class talent coming through the youth ranks

 

I would sell those 2 now if possible at what they were quoted for not very long ago.
Lucky that Twente lacked in quality and speed of play despite having a man advantage.
This season’s transfer window has bared next to nothing.
Only Brobbey and Bergwijn have provided some production.
Sadly nothing from either of them lately due to injury and no quality supply.
Bassey works hard but is clearly lacking technically has been average at best.
I think Sanchez is even lesser in quality in comparing him to Bassey.
Nothing from Wijndal, Kaplan, Ocampos, and Lucca.
Millions have been spent!
No midfield quality in this team other than Berghuis who struggles against better quality teams and when he’s under pressure.
Taylor lacking badly in my opinion.
I’m completely aggravated and tired of watching Tadic and Klaassen.
If they drop points I would really give the youngsters the chance to show what they can do.

 

Should have easily been 0-3 Twente after 45 minutes.

Lucky Ajax


EDIT: okay maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit, but you get the idea

 

I'm mad as heck, and I'm not gonna take it anymore

 

About 33% of revenue last year was CL (lots of it the historical coefficient). Going from CL to EL or Conference league and we're down loads of money-- our budget is based off of that:

#Ajax 2021/22 accounts cover a season when they won the Eredivisie, were finalists in the KNVB Cup and reached the Champions League last 16. Finances still impacted by the COVID pandemic. Some thoughts in the following thread.

— Swiss Ramble (@SwissRamble) October 10, 2022

We'd have to not only sell guys to make wage bill but you'd have guys we'd have no shot signing or keeping because they want to play CL football.

The other issue is outside of Timber and Alvarez maybe Kudus, who is going to sell for a big fee? Really no one. It's not like when we sold de Ligt and de Jong but still had Donny, Ziyech, Neres, Maz, Onana who all could/did get a huge fee.

 

And obviously Transfermarkt is very subjective, but according to them we have 4 20+m Euro players (of which are ... 30+m Euro)... compared to previous teams:

22/23 - 4 (2)
21/22 - 8 (5)
20/21 - 9 (3)
19/20 - 8 (4)
18/19 - 9 (6)

Keep in mind how transfers have insanely inflated too.

 

I feel like if it remained 11 v 11 that Twente would have won. Ajax packed it in when they went down to 10 and Twente didn’t have the creativity.

 

I don't get why Kik Pierie is sent off on a loan, while Rensch is put on the pitch. Rensch was a bench warmer and should stay there.
Louis kept Struijck at home and selected this moron.
And that goalie, my oh my.

 

You better not quote Transfermarkt values, as these mean nothing and are very personal views valuations. Take a look at how they value players.

 

Sure they aren't perfect as I said in my post..... But they paint the picture that is becoming very clear:

No only is the coaching bad but the level of talent at Ajax is very low compared to the last few teams.

 

While not officially a 'transfer', Ocampos might be the worst transaction in Ajax history: 8m between fee/salary for 114 minutes.