Traore is very hit or miss. But Tadic always struggled at RW, so pretty sure he'll continue to struggle there.

I think he'll be a good #10 if Taylor leaves.

I'm actually not 100% where they want Blind to play. At DM? He doesn't have pace for LB and we already have Baas and Janse at LCB.

New rumours of Sneijder being involved as a coach. I think this is a terrible idea and truly hope that Kroes and Co haven't lost their minds.

Agree with Orange14 - Farioli jumped ship too early. Had the chance to make a name for himself and get CL experience.

So looks like either we didn't have plans to replace Farioli OR that coaches are hesitant to sign up for Ajax right now. ETH would've struggled with a limited squad and probably didn't want to take such a big career risk. Reiziger would've still been an unknown and I'm not sure how well he would've ...

I really can't take another year of the same players with Heitinga as coach.

Very sorry to see Farioli go. He's done wonders with the players he had available. Playing attacking football should always be our goal, but for that you need the right kind of players. We tried playing attacking football with almost the same crew last year with disastrous results. I'll always have ...

I still don't understand how we managed this - play short passes to waste time on the right flank give up a throw-in in their half from failing to control a short pass and Sutalo somehow raising his foot above his shoulder right outside the box to block that long throw-in Monty Pythonesque series of...

Bad tackle on Hendo and a red card shown to the Groningen player.

Now in injury time. 6 minutes of hell.

8 minutes to go plus injury time.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!! Weghorst!!! We're up 1-2 now!

CLOSE THE GATES!!! 21 more minutes plus injury time.

Klaassen and Weghorst on for Fitz-Jim and Brobbey.

Also looks like Mokio picked up a knock and can't carry on. Think Wijndal is coming on. Berghuis is coming on for Traore.

Groningen equalized. Mokio played their player onside who tapped in from close range. Can't blame the kid as this is not his primary position.

GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!

That was a Roberto Carlos type shot from a very acute angle by Gaaei!!

Lets go play all out and get a win.

HUP AJAX!

Sounds like Farioli is reading our minds.

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I like the idea of playing Mokio or Hato at LCB. We are 100% missing Baas' offensive contributions. Rugani is a decent defensive replacement but is unable to move the ball forwards. I'd bring Klaassen as a sub to be honest and not have him start. Regardless of what the outcome of these 2 games is, I...

We're not expected to win this game. We've tended to win these games this season, when no one expects anything from the team.

Utterly dismayed. All going downhill since 1. Baas got injured and 2. when the team realized that they could actually win the title.

We've given everything away in a month's time.

Also I've reached a point where I'd be ok letting Brobbey go in the summer. Don't think we'll get more than 10-15M max. But who knows.

A lot of players were just very poor today. Utrecht players were chasing us down when we had the ball. We were able to move the ball though but never really anything worked in the final third.

For Brobbey to work, he need the runs coming in from midfield for him to lay the ball off to. In such crowded defenses, that’s doesn’t work. So what does Brobbey do? More of the same and doesn’t think of maybe freeing himself from the defense and creating an extra man in MF or pull his defender to M...

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This lineup isn’t working. Berghuis might not last until half time.

That mid field was too soft and without any imagination. I didn’t understand why we didn’t start with Mokio at DM.

Wijndal coming on for an injured Klaassen. I’m a bit perplexed

That Traore substitution and his goal were poetic.