Sustain the Excellence: Ajax, 2019-20

AZ isnot going to sell to Ajax. If a sale is in line it will be to a foreign club.
First, because AZ doesnot want to strengthen Ajax with their own breed and second foreign clubs pay more.
Both Stengs and Boadu now have the Orange fairy dust sprinkled on them and Wijndal will follow soon.

 

Sorry O14, but those rankings are a joke

 

They could be like Ajax with de Jong last year: sell and immediately loan back. It's also up to the players. They could prefer a move to Ajax for 2 years then to a bigger foreign club. The history of AZ players going to big foreign clubs of late isn't exactly good.

Ajax did AZ a little favor by basically giving away de Wit too. I think that was a little solid (a la Ajax buying Labyad for 5m after they got ten Hag).

 

Stengs last year already turned down an offer by Ajax. With his status now and the exposure to the epl in the ManUnited matches for both of them the price will be more than Ajax is willing to pay.
Besides that, AZ is going to play CL next season, so why move from a team you know by heart.

 

I dunno what social media your reading, but thisis completely fake news.

 

Ajax will be filthy rich with both V.d Beek and Tagliafico are price-tagged upwards €60M, especially with Euro 2020 is looming where every players tends to look like world-beaters. One good game by Donny, and boom!.. His value will be shot through the roof.

Ajax has done a phenomenal job especially in the past 2-3 seasons in creating a very large moat (separation) of quality with the rest of Eredivisie teams, with selling high (Sanchez, Kluivert, De Jong, De Ligt) and buying low (Nico, Neres, Tadic, Promes). "Responsible" dealing, I guess the way I see it. They have now positioned themselves well to buy and accumulate best talents in Eredivisie, that overtime will make the gap even larger. Great news from Ajax standpoint, bad news for the rest of the league.

 

LOL....you guys still disappointed Dest chose the USA??
Nunnnely just sprinted by him like he wasnt even there for the 0-1 PK

 

Or agree to fee in winter with a summer transfer. Same difference.

I'm just worried as a Dutch NT fan of those guys making the giant leaps others form AZ have and completely falling flat on their face. Ajax is a smaller level change, they'll have CL matches to raise the level but it's a more management leap than some AZ players have made.

Stengs didn't want that move because he wasn't sure he'd play. Now that he's better, Ajax will sell important players, etc. he would probably be an auto-starter for Ajax next year.

 

So what happened? I see a 0-2 score as end result.

 

Stunning result. Props for Willem II who got their game plan right, which was feeding the ball to the two fastest players, Nunnely and Ndy-somebody... (so-difficult-to-spell). Ajax came out flat. The attacking force was so slow, no wonder as Hunter was the leading the attack... and Siem De Jong who sub in later on. Oh, Dest is a joke.

 

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Yup, already mentioned it. No need for them to move from known territory with guys they go along with fine enough.
For the AZ guys Ajax isnot a step up. They can stay at AZ and next season prepare for the big jump out of the Eredivisie.

 

However, they still have to win the match next week.
AZ that is

 

So I've had a few jenevers, but from what I remember from the game, Willem II were completely outplayed.

Ajax finishing was a joke!!!

 

Man if we don't have Promes back I will be really nervous for the Valencia game. This is exactly why I was so pissed about the ridiculous shit that went on during the Chelsea games. We now are in a position where we need a result against a very strong Valencia team with an injury riddled team. We should never have been in this situation. It's a disgrace that Chelsea almost certainly will go through and that one of Valencia or Ajax will be out, despite both deserving it way more. Dominated both games by Valencia, received absolute gifts from the ref in both games against Ajax. It's really bullshit, they have truly been gifted the progression and that's a disgrace. Even the fact that they now get to play against a Lille with nothing to play for is so typically lucky for them. Lille with something to play for would have given them a hell of a time.

So now we're in a tough situation... with Neres out, Labyad out and Promes potentially out.... who takes those winger positions?

There are a number of options... Shift Ziyech back to the wing, shift Tadic back to the wing, or even consider playing Dest as a winger.
Dest as a winger will probably not happen since we've never tried it, but would allow us to at least keep our usual champions league formation. If that isn't working we can always sub Huntelaar in and shift Tadic to the side. I doubt that would happen, but I don't think it's the worst idea.

What I think will happen is Ziyech will switch to LW, Lang will go to RW, Tadic will stay in his normal position and Van de Beek, Alvarez and Martinez will take up the center. It's not the midfield I like, but I think Ten Hag will opt for this considering we go through with a draw....

 

Put Dest there, saver than in the back. He played more than once RW in YAjax.

 

See my post. It was mentioned by vd Looi that he had no clue what to make out of Dest, as he played RB, LB, midfield and winger when he watched YAjax.

 

I think Lille is going to give it all to at least get one win. Let's hope all the missed chances by Lille were practice shooting to hit the bulls eye against Chelsea multiple times.