Just another indicator from the Ajax site that JOB is working his way to recovery- no timeline given, but a picture is shown of him actually taking shots, and the article mentions that he's extremely happy to be "busy with his soccershoes on the field" (rough translation). He's training apart from the A-selection with trainer Wormhoudt on a separate field. http://www.ajax.nl/show/id=1322/contentid=30806
At least he is actually ON the soccer field and kicing an actual ball. I hope Ajax keeps him out until after the Winter Break. And hopefully Ajax can get their way into the 2nd round of CL.
The general idea over here is that JOB is fighting a losing battle. He's been out quite often and other, younger players are slowly coming into the picture. But a fit JOB can be quality though, and seeing how our defence is terrible atm he might get a chance to prove his abilities when he's fit. Problem is that the defence weakness is not on his position.
O'Brien on his way back for Ajax From AFCA 1900 on SoccerPages: In a press conference at the Arena on 9/20, assistant coach Ruud Krol stated that O'Brien is 'physically' fit and 'technically' recovered from his injury. However, he has been out for a long time and will need his own personal 'pre-season' campaign in order to get 'match fit'. This will take another five to six weeks, according to Krol. He will need a handful of training games and probably a few appearanced for Young Ajax before he's really ready to return to Ajax-1 action.
It was terrible indeed. 4-2 was actually lucky. Problems are bad communication and sometimes plain bad defending, too apathic. Newcomer Escude hasn't been too great either. But everything was bad sunday, not only the defence.
It probably means that the MRI's show that his body has healed itself. Tha' skilz should be polished off through playing in the reserve matches.
The real problem is Chivu plays for Roma and Bergdolmo plays for Dortmund. Those guys were rocks for Ajax last year. Losing JOB is just icing on a very bad cake.
Sounds like there's some disagreement on this issue. Since I haven't seen any of the matches (thank you FSW), I'll just ask the questions- how very Switzerland of me: Scenario A: Koeman thinks there's a problem at left back- hopefully JOB regains full fitness, and wins the starting spot. Scenario B: Koeman thinks Maxwell is doing fine. If JOB regains the first team selection, where do you think he'd play? Will Koeman shuffle the backline around? What about the possibility of JOB playing somewhere at outside mid, which he has in the past?
i'd guess the likely scenario is the JOB reclaims the LB spot and maxwell slides into the DM role, but i suppose it is possible that JOB could move upfield
Yes, I seem to remember that he's played LB, RB, and right-mid in the past. But more recently it's been predominantly LB (when he's healthy)
This is great news. From what they say, he could be ready to for WCQ in a few months (not like we would need him then, but a nice option to have).
They'd move Maxwell to DM before JOB despite the fact he plays it for the USMNT at times, interesting....
Bergdolmo leaving isn't that big of a problem. Ajax wanted to offload him. I personally thought he wasn't that great. The newcomers just take some time, and play a bit worse than most hoped for, especially Escude. That's why we need more Pasanen, who is a good defender and only getting better it seems.
Really true there.The year FSW carried a lot ofAjax games Bergdolmo always struck me as the weak link.
There's another picture of JOB on the Ajax site- looks like he fully participated in practice with the reserves today. The starting 11 didn't do too much since they played yesterday. http://www.ajax.nl/show/id=1322/contentid=30982