Don't watch Ajax. They're ripping the piss out of Besiktas after hammering Sporting Lisbon in their opening game.
Playing football we simply wouldn't be able to and could only dream of.
Levy deserves the sack for not employing him
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Playing football we simply wouldn't be able to and could only dream of.
Levy deserves the sack for not employing him
Frank de Boer has never made Ajax so competitive in Europe. Forget about Eredivisie. Not sure why you keep saying Ajax this, Ajax that, ten Hag hasn’t started at Ajax and he’s been a success everywhere he managed.
I'd be excited by it if it goes ahead.
No manager hire is a certainty, and you can come up with lots of reasons he mightn't work out (quality of Dutch league, specificity of Ajax club structure, will his ideas work in PL with the squad we have? will he click with our group of players?). Like Emery, is he a poor communicator in English language? - to this, I don't think so, excepting that one odd video where he says he likes Italy) .
I dunno, to me he seems driven, detailed, a good motivator, and when you look at his Ajax teams, I think lots of our players could flourish in his kind of system (Kane, Son, Bergwijn, Ndombele, Gio, Skipp, Hojbjerg, Sess, Reguilon, Toby, Rodon.... maybe Lucas, Davies and Dele, and Foyth if we can work something out with Villareal).
No manager hire is a certainty, and you can come up with lots of reasons he mightn't work out (quality of Dutch league, specificity of Ajax club structure, will his ideas work in PL with the squad we have? will he click with our group of players?). Like Emery, is he a poor communicator in English language? - to this, I don't think so, excepting that one odd video where he says he likes Italy) .
I dunno, to me he seems driven, detailed, a good motivator, and when you look at his Ajax teams, I think lots of our players could flourish in his kind of system (Kane, Son, Bergwijn, Ndombele, Gio, Skipp, Hojbjerg, Sess, Reguilon, Toby, Rodon.... maybe Lucas, Davies and Dele, and Foyth if we can work something out with Villareal).
Someone previously mentioned the club hiring a psychologist to help players manage why they're such pushovers in clutch moments, who roll over in cup finals.
I like that idea. Honestly, I like that idea maybe more than a new manager.
I like that idea. Honestly, I like that idea maybe more than a new manager.
We failed under all of those to win anything while the snake meddled in DoF matters which are evidently beyond his ability.
He had the best young manager and failed to back him up in 18 - any new manager would work under the same ridiculous conditions unless a proper scouting /DOF structure is established and he steps aside from ALL football related matters - and sticks to what he does best - turn profit
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Pull yourself together you massive blouse
Poch came from mid table Southampton- sherwood beat them - we all wanted de boer, van gaal or some other flash cunt.
We do better with less of a name - the hyped managers fail.
Players can’t even eat breakfast without him creeping around. What an odd odd man
Maybe he's just not very likeable, he wasn't particularly when he was creeping around the Amazon documentary and that was heavily edited.
Maybe Ten Hag thought this cunt sacked Mourinho before a (rare) cup final and almost sold out to the Super League (which Ajax didn't)...
What about the other 6 dwarfs?I think...I woke up grumpy
For one thing ten Hag has had success at places on than Ajax, whereas that was de Boer's first head job and he got it because he's Frank de Boer.
For another, being as successful as he was for his first few years, it's pretty rare to turn out to be a total fraud like de Boer is, it's kind of amazing that happened.
And then if you look at the point totals and European record, ten Hag's Ajax teams have been clearly better than de Boer's.
Plenty of reason to be suspicious of someone who hasn't managed in an elite league before, but I don't think the superficial de Boer comparison is fair or accurate.
It was a phone interview where he refused Levy's "Reverse Charges" request
I'm going to keep pimping this till someone at Spurs listens. We have bottomed out getting sniffed at by Graham fuckingPotter. If we have go back to go forward with a young progressive attacking coach, there's one who is more tactically adept than Poch. Marcelo Gallardo ( taking English lessons considering a new challenge ) is the risk we should take.
At Bayern II, he had them scoring the most goals they have ever scored in the league.
At Utrecht, he was also DOF as well as manager, so he actually set the foundations for them to be able to succeed after him.
Also, his Ajax team equaled a goal scoring record (fewest number of games to reach 82 goals if I recall), that was set by the Cryffs great Ajax side in the 80s, a feat even Louis van Gaals Ajax didn't manage.
His Ajax team also scored the 2nd most goals in Eredivisie history scoring just 3 less than the record Ajax set in the 66/67 season.
Other than Frank De Boer, what other successful Ajax manager has had a terrible history outside of Ajax?
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Get rid of Dier, Winks, Davies, Ndombele, Moura, Dele, Kane, Doherty and add £150,000,000 to the kitty, fire Hitchen and get me a proper scouting network and I'll win you everything
"Thank you for your time but we don't believe you're the right candidate for the club at this time"
Very difficult to tell. I know his team schooled us for 3/4 halves in the CL semi-final.
If he does come, I hope he's not someone who will NEVER sacrifice his 'philosophy'.
Would definitely not be be displeased if he joined, but I do worry he could be another de Boer.
Or the managerial equivalent of Vincent Janssen.
If he does come, I hope he's not someone who will NEVER sacrifice his 'philosophy'.
Would definitely not be be displeased if he joined, but I do worry he could be another de Boer.
Or the managerial equivalent of Vincent Janssen.
Just posting here so that when this is manager thread and he wins us the quintuple in a couple years I'm on the first page singing his praises.