I for one do not think Kolbeinn's injury is a blessing. But it is sad that it's going to take this to be the catalyst for Frank to HOPEFULLY realise his midfield choices are floored. Siem, who is a mediocre player as aveslacker puts will do a decent job at #9 but lets hope the 'new look' midfield sh...

I would like to see

Vermeer
van Rhijn/ Ligeon
Alderweireld
Vertonghen (C)
Anita
Enoh
Janssen
Eriksen
Sulejmani
Boerrigter
de Jong

I couldn't get to see the second half as i'm moving house, but it sounds like more of the same. Like Orange says, we are starting to sound like broken records but our midfield is... well, broken. Janssen was a bad buy imo, not energetic enough, not Ajax enough and de Jong should be our back-up strik...

Thanks dude I've found it.

Anyone got the sopcast stream?

Never thought i'd be saying this, but I want to see Enoh in midfield Sunday.

I think we should bite the bullet and release him, along with Silva & Aissati. I know it will cost some money but they will want to go so we could do a deal. I feel sorry for Aissati, I like him as a player. Under MvB I thought he looked promising, then at Vitesse he did well, just cannot perform at...

I'm very proud of the performance and I have every confidence that Frank will come good, he's still learning at this level as are our players. I for one am not expecting '95 again any time soon, I just want us to play like Ajax and be brave and attack minded. Last night we did that, against a team t...

I think when Janssen joined Orange and I were the only ones who thought we didn't need him or want him. I would have preferred Schaars or even Leroy Fer. But the player i really wanted was Wijnaldum, imagine him and Eriksen! and now Anita would be our settled DM. Frank needs to quit this experiment ...

philippe schreef:Downside : WTF is wrong with Franck about Janssen ?

In short. Nothing, Theo, as our deepest midfielder was not doing his job and even Siem had to come deep. Good decision imo to bring Enoh on. Possibly done a little late, he should maybe have started.

I think we gave it a go, attacked them and tried to win. But our midfield again was suspect, also a few individual errors like Greg's indecisiveness cost us.

We can't go on with this set up in the middle. Janssen OR de Jong not both.

The Kaka goal just screams DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER to me. With no cover player in the middle any decent team will open us up.

I was just writing that Bulykin is actually the right player for this moment, someone we can just toss the ball to when needed... GOOOOAL!!

That was poor by Greg, soft foul. He should know Mertens wants to go inside but still made a dumb challenge!

I still think Janssen was the wrong signing for us. Our midfield has looked broken in every game so far, because when Janssen and De Jong play together the only energy comes from Eriksen and he tires himself out and becomes ineffectual. We use Jan and Toby as our 'deep lying playmakers' so why choos...

as I press submit, Siem scores his second gift!!

I agree with the midfield evaluation of Orange, also Toby needs to stop thinking he's Glenn Hoddle or Frank Rijkaard and quit with the attempted through balls from deep, we have Janssen and Eriksen in midfield so give them the ball. We need more energy in the middle. If Frank want's to replicate the...

I might be in the select few that is OK with the Bulykin signing, he's big and different to what we have, also he has a decent goal record in the league. Now i think in the last few hours we should offload El Ham in a swap deal for a defender.

OK that's a keeper in, now for the rest... if VDW goes who to replace him? Play little Vurn at right back or buy a new player?

I remember quite liking the look of Gravenbeek from Willem II last season.

This is going to be the first game in a while that i'm not getting to watch and i'm gutted. Hopefully you guys can keep me in the loop as to whats happening.

Good to see Janny back in the team.

Missed the first half, any good? Interesting that Anita is playing left back.

How does the midfield set up look this week guys?

Congrats to Kolbeinn for his first Ajax goal.

haha, i could totally see that, I saw something about us approaching Gentenaar... and to go back to you afcajax73, I used to hate playing the Vale because they would always get a result, i remember a game where Tony Naylor was 3-5 yards out with almost an open goal, me and my friend Jamie just looke...

I'm sure i've just read that Sergio Romero has been given a free transfer by AZ?? surely we should be looking at maybe him as a new recruit?

I've been saying about the need for a CB for a while, de Boer should ban Toby from watching (or thinking he's) Gerard Pique and concentrate on defending. I feel a solid CB will make Toby and Jan and effectively the team much better. The midfield chemistry will come even if we continue with the Janss...

Serero on... Eriksen to #9??