Match with Utrecht is cancelled because of the ongoing police strike. Next scheduled match is Wednesday, Sept 18 against Fortuna Sittard. this is the makeup game that was rescheduled.

Alas, the Ajax ladies lost to Fiorentina 1-0 on a nice 80 minute goal their striker. It looked to be a defensive error by the usually reliable CB Isa Kardinaal who was late in covering. It was a tight match and Ajax had more shots on goal 17-5 but they were mostly tame and easily saved. Ajax are out...

Now the match with Utrecht may be in doubt. The police union may do another work stoppage on that day as a negotiating tactic for better benefits. I'm now wondering whether this will also put the Europa League match in peril. What a mess.

What's up with van axel Dongen? Is he still hurt? He is a left wing but contantly injured it seems.

Ajax women defeated Ukrainian team, Kolos Kovalika, 4-1 in extra time in the qualification round for the Champions League. This round is an elimination with only a single game against the opponent in a four team pool. The Ukraine team scored first with a well timed run by the striker who split the d...

Kroes was in a very bad place given the finances. He inherited a bunch of players who had no transfer value or would not leave because of the salary they are on at Ajax. The Vos transfer was weird and Ajax thought they could get more from him. He apparently had issues with Farioli's approach. We'll ...

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di sep 03, 2024 1:55 am

I'm ok with this signing, but do not understand keeping Akpom, Weghorst and also Brobbey. Is this deja vu or did we have this same conversation last winter?

They wanted to sell Akpom but no English team wanted him.

Not great news on the rescheduling of the Klassieker. New date is Wednesday, October 30 and on Saturday, Ajax are home to PSV. It was difficult for the KNVB to find a new date given both sides are playing Euro football during the week. October 30 is open because of Beker Cup first round which both A...

Finally Ajax gets a good draw in a Euro competition!!! The Europa League as with the other two tourneys has changed the format to a new format. Rather than cutting and pasting a huge amount of text, here is the link at the UEFA website that explains how this all works: https://documents.uefa.com/r/R...

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do aug 29, 2024 7:21 pm

Unuvar loaned to Espanyol for a season with an option , 1m mentioned. Hope he plays regularly ,has a lot of talent but needs playing time.

It's probably one of the better leagues for him.

Just got back from dropping the wife off at the airport (I really hate driving back and forth to Dulles Airport; traffic is a bitch). Good to see the win and a clean sheet. Sad that there will not be any Ajax football this weekend.

This is the earliest Klassieker that I can remember. There is some question whether it will take place on Sunday as there may be a local police work stoppage on Sunday.

We play Eindhoven today 16.30 away. Caught the final 30 mintues of a 0-3 win. Rijkoff with two goals, one from the spot and a great run by Faberski from inside the Ajax defensive half and scored with a really hard shot. I won't be surprised to see him make minutes with Ajax first team. He is alread...

I went out for my walk right after it became 4-1. It was a slow start in the game but Ajax really came alive. Unuvar is so quick in the box and gets his shot off fast. The only player I'm not impressed with is O'Neil, just don't understand his choices when he has the ball.

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vr aug 23, 2024 8:46 pm

Season starts tomorrow and U19 v VVV in the cup and its live on the Ajax youtube channel or Ajax.nl site 14.30 CET . Raining here tomorrow so I will stay in and watch our talents.

It will be morning here and I'll try to catch it as well. There is a lot of talent on this teamf!!!

Probably will miss this game as I have to drive Ms O-14 to the airport. Have at it for match discussion.

It really should have been about 1-6 as the Polish team is really poor. They didn't press well and left acres of space for Ajax to pass into. NAC was far better. Hard to believe they won the championship last season. I thought the match official was not good either. Taylor did not foul on the play w...

The Polish team is really poor, they cannot beat Ajas. Ajax can beat itself. It looked to me that Forbs was at fault on the goal leaving just lots of space on a short corner that the Polish player could run into. Pasveer made the first save but it was right at a Polish attacker. Ajax are rotating th...

Line up for today: Pasveer; Rensch, Sutalo, Baas, Hato; Berghuis, Henderson, Taylor; Forbs, Akpom, Godts

Fitz-Jim and Kaplan are not fit and did not travel to Poland. Ajax registered Rugani (unlike the epic failure to get Haller registered when he came in) who is expected to play. Mokio and Verschuren from Jong Ajax are also on the traveling team.

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ma aug 19, 2024 7:04 pm

With Milan looking at Vos a bit of a surprise he plays tonight

I wonder if they are reconsidering given how poor Mannswerk played the other day. Personally, I think Vos has promise if he can get his head on right.

The whole transfer market has changed. Outside of the EPL, most clubs now want to take players on loan with or without an option to buy. Direct purchase of players is really limited these days as far as I can tell. Madrid, PSG, and Bayern are perhaps the only exceptions right now. There are disgrunt...

Full credit to NAC who defended magnificently. Every player close in was double teamed and defenders were able block almost every shot coming goalward. It was expected that players would be rotated by Farioli and that he did. He cannot have been pleased with a lot of the performances. Ball rotation ...

0-0 at the half. NAC are packing everyone back in and Ajax have not figured out how to unlock it. Traore has been really bad as has Hato. Hato's passes are slow and easily intercepted. Brobbey is getting position but as soon as the ball comes to him close in he is double or triple teamed. NAC have n...

Lots of changes: Pasveer; Gaaei, Sutalo, Janse, Hato; Mannswerk, van den Boomen, Hlynsson; Traore, Brobbey, Godts