With the 2023-2024 season ending soon it's time to start the new season thread. Alot is going to happen this summer in the run up, so plenty to talk about I expect.
PSV looking ahead with confidence if you go by this article. https://www.psvinside.nl/met-amster...-koning-te-rijk-na-deze-uitspraak-peter-bosz/ With the Amsterdam unrest and a Feyenoord that seems to be itself again, PSV is king after this statement Peter Bosz
https://www.fcupdate.nl/voetbalnieu...-georges-mikautadze-metz-heeft-optie-tot-koop Mikautadze, who has been scoring like a conveyor belt, seems to be available for a discount price for Metz.
78 https://www.parool.nl/sport/zijn-de...-brian-brobbey-verkocht-moet-worden~beb521ea/ In an official letter with seventeen pages of questions, major shareholders of Ajax demand clarity about the problems at the club, preferably during the shareholders' meeting on Tuesday. But that could be the prelude to a legal minefield. Are the financial problems so deep that Brian Brobbey has to be sold? Jop van Kempen and Bas Soetenhorst 18 May 2024, 03:00 Het Parool: 'Ajax doesn't have the money for new players and may have to sell Brobbey' Het Parool published an analysis of Ajax's financial situation on Saturday. The medium discusses the official letter that a group of Ajax shareholders sent to provide clarity about the problems surrounding the club. According to insiders, the loss on the purchases of Sven Mislintat is even fifty million euros. In the current financial year, the people of Amsterdam are said to have borrowed forty million euros from a bank to pay the fixed costs. "Think of the salaries of the 450 employees and the rent of the Johan Cruijff Arena," writes Het Parool. "Combine this with the loss that Ajax will have to take on a number of disappointing purchases of the departed technical director Sven Mislintat (possibly fifty million euros according to insiders)." Missing out on the Champions League is also a cause for concern for the shareholders' group. Because Ajax has almost no money to buy players, it is doubted whether the club will have to say goodbye to Brian Brobbey next summer. "The 22-year-old striker who has been a bright spot in this disastrous season and is therefore Ajax's silverware. Or Steven Bergwijn (26), who is also quite in the market. The miserable financial situation therefore directly affects the sporting one," according to Het Parool.
Oh dear. Things can get out of hands between the "Raad van Commissarissen", the "Bestuursraad" and the "VEB". Especially RvC-member Leo van Wijk was on collision course. https://www.accountant.nl/nieuws/2024/5/relatie-veb-en-ajax-onder-druk-na-rumoerige-vergadering/ Some even think it can end in court at the "Ondernemingskamer", which would be very bad. It's called the "nuclear option" in this article: https://www.ad.nl/nederlands-voetba...dstuk-in-aanhoudende-bestuurscrisis~af1e45de/