Valencia not very good, but we were very bad, so that's what happens... More bitter about the Chelsea games' VAR incidents than these drama queens, but it's done and dusted now. If we don't start the sell off in the winter transfer window we should have a decent shot in the Europa League I guess. Ba...

Manneken Pis schreef: The ref was Russian, so technically Chealski own him....

I stand corrected, the ref was Italian not Russian, so they didn't own him. Just rented him.

GangstaRiB schreef::
We owned Chelsea before the ref decided to invent his own rules.

The ref was Russian, so technically Chealski own him....



Oh, and I would have settled for a point before kick off.

Man U, PSG, and Spurs all interested in Onana (40€M - 50€M).

Yup they've come sniffing....

http://www.football-oranje.com/ten-hag- ... rn-munich/

Hopefully they can't wait till the summer.

Kovac has left Bayern. I hope they don't come looking for Ten Hag.....

Chelsea were better than I expected, we haven't got our mojo back (like the weekend).
I can't complain that they shaded it and won, as they were a bit better.
VAR was right.

We miss Frenkie and Mathijs in matches like this, and I think that's why we won't get quite so far in the CL this year.

Orange14 schreef: Pretty weird that there was not an extra minute or two before the half.

Especially as we were in the middle of an attack...
Tadic also got brought down with a professional foul/wrestle without any punishment.

Well .... all beatable as already said, but also no easy teams. I fancy us against Chelsea, particularly with Lampard in charge. Valencia will be the toughest I reckon (strongest technically and therefore toughest for us). I have no idea what coming second in La Ligue means these days so difficult t...

Rumours about Schöne to Genoa.......

MP a good read . Barca wont do business with Raiola so Matthijs was left wth Juve or PSG in a weak french league.Raiola is good for established players but my moan is with kids. He did his best to get Gravenberch to leave us but Ryan and his family decided they wanted to stay at Ajax. Simons has li...

I know we all hate Raiola, but there must be a reason so many players go to him. Read this piece by Simon Kuper and see if it nuances your thoughts (it did mine ... a bit): https://global.espn.com/football/juventus/story/3904636/why-de-ligt-chose-juventus----the-italian-champions-were-the-best-fit-f...

Ajax got PAOK (Greek Champions) in the CL '19-'20 third round draw. The toughest opponent on paper...

Interesting article on why (apart from the money) he chose Juventus here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foo ... 09486.html

De Ligt is back in training in Amsterdam this morning....

SPL schreef:I dont like clubs like PSG or Man City who are just rich Arabs toys and guess Man U is always my least favourite club but these 3 would all pay up the required transfer.

Don't like 'em either, but out of that lot I would prefer Man City, because Pep would coach him to be a better footballer.

What do you want to hear then? No transfer at all would be the best news. Lol. I don't know. No transfer and an announcement that Mathijs has decided to stay back another year. :smile-ajax.gif: Juve have offered 55M€ + 10M€ later apparently. Not the 75M€ agreed previously. Read somewhere that Ajax ...

I guess we have to qualify first... Yeah, it struck me as ludicrous that Genk are guaranteed (albeit in a low pot) and Ajax still have to qualify. Then I looked at the national league coefficients and it hits you how low Dutch club (association) football has sunk in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org...

Anwar El Ghazi scored for Aston Villa in their promotion play-off win to get them promoted back to the Premiership. In his post game interview he wore a t-shirt with Nouri 34 on it in tribute of his friend...

http://www.football-oranje.com/el-ghazi ... ue-return/

Live streaming here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBYr4pIfSOs

Martin Jol shares his thoughts....

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ie-de-jong

Orange14 schreef:Spurs are up next. What a wild game against ManCity. Two big VAR calls. Their attacker Son picked up a YC and is suspended for the first game.

Yup Ajax 1st XI versus Ajax Old Boys.....

I’m *almost* feeling safe in terms of GD. Almost. I think if we win our games we’ll be fine. But I’m sure we all remember that CL group stage from the 2000s... yes, when zagreb bent over for lyon in a game that to this day is very suspicious to me "The wink"..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc4...

I’m *almost* feeling safe in terms of GD. Almost. I think if we win our games we’ll be fine. But I’m sure we all remember that CL group stage from the 2000s... yes, when zagreb bent over for lyon in a game that to this day is very suspicious to me "The wink"..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc4...

Amol schreef:
Don't get me wrong - I still think Ronaldo is a dick. But at least he has good PR which hopefully brought a little joy to Appie's family.

That's a fair point.