Where is the Magic? Ajax 2020-21 Season

Hello, Feyenoordsoccerfan here ....
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Frenkie 87M $USD.
Mathijs 87M $USD.
Dolberg 23M $USD.
Ziyech 47M $USD.
Van De Beek 53M $USD.
Dest 24M $USD.

$321 M for selling 6 players, not bad business. Can't win CL with this model but Van Der Sar is doing fine.

 

Alvarez is a total embarrassment. Was awful today before the red. He was getting a second yellow if the red didn't come.

ten Hag needs his head examined why he continues to play him over Martinez.

 

Ohhh-- yeah this guy doing the game on ESPN+ is rough.

Either way, I'm guessing Martinez is hurt. Ekklenkamp on at half makes me think so. If not, ten Hag is insane for starting Alvarez over him.

 

Nice finish Antony. He's already paying dividends.

2-1

 

Kudus is incredible thus far too. His feints are Frenkie-like.

 

No Timber rating?

 

Does anyone know why Traore (our supposed future striker) and Neres are not starting??

Because I dont have a lot of faith in Labyad

 

Hopefully we do not see Alvarez in midfield again for a while.

 

Neres still getting fit. Once he is healthy, front 4 of him, Tadic, Promes and Antony is going to be scary.

I don’t like Labyad much either. Team is way better with Tadic as a 9.

Maz, Kudus, Antony were all incredible tonight. Timber was really solid too.

 

He is flat out awful. I thought he was terrible in GC Final against the US as a DM right before Ajax signed him.

 

Turns out his injury is worth 25 million, if Dest is sold.

 

Will be interesting to see if 23 first team matches is a sufficient preparation for a jump to a top league.
I willnot use the word top club, as Barcelona in it's current state soccerwise isnot. The trashing by Bayern wasnot an accident.
So Dest's move comes for him at a better moment than it would have been for a Barca from 2 years ago. Ample chance to fight himself into the starting eleven.

 

Sucks when you havent wont a title in hundreds of years, huh??!!

 

@Orange14 I see you're engaging with what in the US-Mex rivalry thread are called the delusional NAD's by the Mex supporters.
They really have no clue about top football, top national teams and top star players.
They even donot get/are incapable to process what I've been posting about Dest.
Their delusional minds see my posts as attacks on Dest and his choice, while my real targets are themselves while I expose their incredible ignorance about how selection processes work in top national teams.
They even have the delusional impression I'm defending Ajax in the Dest case while I try to explain how things work, which has nothing to do with Ajax nor Dest, but everything with their ignorance about how processes work over here.
It's quite funny how they get excited about a guy who has nothing to do with the USA at all, but act as if he's one of them. His father has nothing to do with the USA, apart from being a (Dutch)Surinam born man who was naturalized into a US citizen, and sent off as a military man to the Netherlands where he met his Dutch wife. So literally nothing ties Dest to the States but that flimsy piece of paper his father was given as an excuse to get military personel.
And yet they get on their high horses about the first American transferred to a superclub.
Their football legacy really is pathetic to be so estatic about an appropriated player. They have literally no experience with true superstars and once hyped ones that they take our from experience fed prudence with expectations about players yet to prove their qualities those calimero types talk trash about us being salty.
Pathetic types. We have seen for every superstar we produced about ten that looked like the real deal, but turned into a dodo. Especially at Ajax there were talents that were deemed to go straight up but came crashing down.
But if you come from a soccer culture with a league system geared to mediocraty instead of top quality, you obviously havenot got the reference framework we have that tells us to declare someone a superstar when he really is one.
With Dest all odds are open. He can become a Gio van Bronckhorst quality player or the next van der Wiel/Ricardo van Rhijn. Nobody knows yet.
But when you try to get that into their shrimp like brains you challenge their unicorn believes, so your salty.

 

what about Noa Lang. I really would like to see this guy get more game time but looks it would be better he goes out on loan again.

 

When the soap about his choice US vs Orange started some delusionals fed by an ignorant press started to claim he had been guaranteed a spot by Koeman, but chose for the USA despite that. When I explained that's not how it works with top nations the delusional ones came after me. I hated Dest, was a salty Dutch etc.
About two years ago something like that happened when they were bigging up Palmer-Brown with Ajax and PSV going after him. I told them there wasnot anything from Ajax/PSV sources that supported that news. They also talked about how EPB got on their radar etc. I told them that isnot the MO of top clubs and certainly not the Dutch top clubs MO. I got alot of flak about that, including denying his greatness as shown on some youth wc, but in the end after the "dust" settled it turned out I was right all the time.

The ignorant ones just don't learn, start conspiracy plots of Dutch against Dest after his choice, claiming Dutch are foaming on reddit and twitter about him (looked for those as I was interested who those idiots were but couldnot find them) etc. They just don't get it Dest is to us just one of the crowd, just like Mazra and Ziyech when they chose another path. To them it's a big deal he chose the USMNT, so they have to make it a big deal for us to feed their petty inferiority complex. And all that for a player who's as American as a Mongol riding the Siberian plains.

 

Mike Verweji reported that Ajax are looking to bring Davy Klaassen back and also bring in RB Sean Klaiber from FC Utrecht. Klaiber is fine as a back up RB but, why bring Klaassen back? Why is Ajax so obsessed with signing so many former players?