Cedric_AeF schreef:To be fair, Aissati, and I think Bakkal and another one are contracted with them, but sure, it doesn't look good...

And Affellay out through injury

foxflyer5 schreef:i think someone mentioned it before,
but it would make sense for the cup winner to go to CL 3rd round qualifiers.

I disagree. A team only has to win 6 games to win the cup. That hardly compares to a 34 game eredivisie season.

SPL schreef: My main point is that I read that De Jong can leave Hamburg. I believe he has been injured but his career has come to a fullstop since leaving us.

I reckon his career stopped when he decided he only would play as a midfielder. He would have been far better as a right back

carcajou schreef:So, if you're right, France should fail completely in 2008.... Somehow, I doubt it. I'm ready to place a few bets on this one.

If they even get there :p
I'm game if you are. What are the stakes?

You can't be serious..... You say that France is nothing without Zidane, but where is the proof? Apparently only the period where he was an international is taken into account and in this very period, he played during ALL the competitions, so you just have nothing to base your opinion upon.... Errr...

Well, I see my point about the results from the 80's being too old to count has disappeared ;) Anyway Also, I can't help but feel the irony when I read such a remark from a guy from New Zealand, a country that delivers SO MUCH on the international stage that they actually make Japan look like a dece...

Escude replaced by Vermaelen. OK, as I have kind of a personal sympathy for Julien Escudé, I just have to make a comeback :icon_biggrin.gif:. Let's try to get our facts straight on this one: You're making it sound like Escudé was not good enough and Vermaelen replaced him....That's kind of funny si...

Yeah, the academy has barely produced any international players for the current squad. besides Stekelenburg, Heitinga, Vermaelen, Emanuelson, Maduro, Sneijder, Babel, Davids. What a shitty output. They should get their act together The problem is that it's exactly my point... Is Heitinga great mate...

The problem with that is once a 'top' team goes up 1 or 2 goals against a weak team, they'll just sit back in cruise control for the rest of the game. That would be a lot of boring games... not really. more teams in holland are becoming stronger, and why would a team want to be joint on points at t...

I have a question regarding Ajax that will (I reckon) reflect on our current situation and our stumble in the race to the title : How come the products of Young Ajax have been so mediocre recently? I mean, aside from Emmanuelson and Maduro, where are the top-notch players? The ones that can actuall...

That's up to the managers perspective. But when two teams are level at the end I think its more logical to use the head-to-head results. that way you do get the better team of the season between them two, and it adds more flavour to the competition. scoring heaps of goals doesnt necessarily mean yo...

GangstaRIB said: Adriaanse build the team, Van Gaal cashes in. Same scenario at Ajax possible? I think so! No but Van Gaal did lose key players e.g. Kromkamp, Perez, Landzaat, so you have to give him some credit....he is better then Koeman, how dare you all compare them as coaches :furious3: well, ...

I note that it appears that there is starting to be a feeling around the place that HTC should be given a helping hand in leaving the club. I think that we need is to have a period of stability having got through (with HTC included) 6 coaches in approximately the last 10 years. I haven't been impre...

Perez would be the obvious choice to replace Sneider. BUT will our pig headed coach agree? I'd rather see Manucharyan or Sarpong play. Why? Without Sneijder or Perez the Ajax midfield lacks two things: creativity and goals. I think Manucharyan deserves a chance. He's generally impressed in games he...

dws schreef:

SPL schreef:
I see Sneijder is banned on Friday. A stupid yellow card in the 94th minute.

Perez would be the obvious choice to replace Sneider. BUT will our pig headed coach agree?

I'd rather see Manucharyan or Sarpong play.

It showed.... 5-0 Venezuelan win :yes: I had the chance to interview Ricki Herbert befoe the game ;) nice lad very open to the press. Too bad for the All Whites, two games lost with an overall result of 9-0 (costa rica 4-0 and Venezuela 5-0) :nooo: yeah, that was some nostradamus-like predicting th...

Big game on tonight in the international window. yep, it's Venezuela vs New Zealand. well, maybe 2 people on this board will care. For the record, i'm picking a close win for Venezuela, or at best a draw, and by way of excuse, NZ's only 2 premiership players are both not in the squad. It showed.......

Big game on tonight in the international window. yep, it's Venezuela vs New Zealand. well, maybe 2 people on this board will care. For the record, i'm picking a close win for Venezuela, or at best a draw, and by way of excuse, NZ's only 2 premiership players are both not in the squad.

I don't know who it should be Frans, it's not my job to find a good headcoach for our club. What I do know is that all the coaches since van Gaal (which is 10 years ago) have been sacked. I'd suggest that most coaches end up being sacked, no matter what club they are at. It's just the nature of the...

One last word, and than I will stop with bringing the Ten Cate-Blind 'war' into the English zone ;) . I think it's better to spend a large sum of money on an absolute topcoach instead of spending all the money yet again on 7 new players. There is not a lot wrong with the players we have under contr...

Well, I haven't seen anyone mention this, so I will...

Vurnon Anita was selected in a European U-18 all-star team for the meridian cup, a two-legged tie vs a similar African U-18 team. Anita played a half in each game. Europe won the tie 10-1 (6-1 and 0-4).

the point with video is that it can watched by a second referee :glotz: As happens in rugby union - and they still get it FUCKING wrong. Forget about video refs. As I stated earlier: a clown sitting in a caravan ( video ref ain't inside the ground in rugby ... sits in a little van with viewing scre...

According to eredivisie.pl Ajax's board want our reserve team to play in Jupiler League instead of reserve teams competition. Winter and van den Brom say that the young players from Ajax would develop faster when they would have a chance to play against professional and experienced players. The ide...

Ah, let's not exaggerate the trouble... It was the 'usual' and not much more than that. A few bricks, bottles and other crap flying around when the Feyenoord trains arrived (indeed, by the North end, as Cedric says). But the two groups never came close to each other and there was no fighting, excep...

Well, they can't learn if they never play.