Ajax have today given 2 year contracts to 3 youngsters Cees Keizer, Mike Timisela and Jasper Kok,last week they gave a 2 year contract to Robbie Schilder, one year to Sahadewsing and a3year to a Vernon Anita who is only just 16 and evidently still in theB1. I hope I have got these correct as I took ...

The last posts immediately remind me of the opening para of the wonderful Brilliant Orange by David Winner

His book is about Dutch Football but barely a word about Fword and PSV.

When I , an englishman thinks of the beauty of Dutch Football since 1970 only one word comes to mind AJAX .

I have only just picked up the Fword score GREAT. I will be happy if we draw as they will then still have a big job to overtake us.A win will be even better obviously as we can then forget about them challenging for 2nd. I still think we can get 2nd place ,which is all that matters. I seem to rememb...

I will continue here regards those on contracts to 2006. Trabelsi, VDV and Maxwell will certainly leave. Pienaar and De Jong will hopefully be given extensions. This leaves Obodai,who I think will go and Bouhkari and Galasek. These last 2 might be retained for another year. Galasek seems to be getti...

I believe we have 8/9 players whose contracts are up in 2006 and I assume Blind and Ajax will be reviewing these at present.

We may be playing crap but even we cannot fail to finish 4th. We are 12 points clear of 5th place with only a maximum 21 points to play for.UEFA cup next season is certain. A win on Sunday would of course put us only a point behind AZ( we have played a game more of course) I do not expect us on curr...

Klivert has not set the Premiership alight and will almost certainly leave Newcastle. We were discussing him the other day at a game and came to the conclusion that he has never really reached his full potential. In fact my friends and I believe the peak of his career was scoring that goal in 1995! ...

I see we played Kras, Rusculleda and Sangoy last night. As these 3 are not being retained I hope the club does not pick them again this season but instead gives some of the 18/19 year old A1 players a chance to earn a contract. I see Robbie Schilder has been given a 2 year contract so surely he shou...

I think he will go out on loan next season.Future here does not look good.

No way are we going to finish 6th . We are still 9 points clear of 5th place.

Even if we lose to AZ and the Fword we will still finish 4th.

Do the 3rd,4th and 5th clubs plus cup winners still qualify for UEFA Cup?

Not surprised with any of the names released except possibly Filipe. I think Obodai will go but he is one of about 7/8 players whose contracts are up in 2006 that the club will need to decide next. Big question which goalie will go? I believe Lobont will go .The club might keep him for one for more ...

Not strictly this post but a mention above about online shop reminds me that recently in a large Soccer World shop in Brighton they had PSV and Fword home and away shirts . They told me they never get Ajax shirts. Ajax need to start selling their shirts in this country epsecially as it is one of the...

According to my paper today UEFA have called Moan Ure's plan a Joke and would kill off Tv and interest in Champions League.Here Here. I agree the competition should be for the league champions only.To have the 4th team inthe EPL and Italian leagues is a joke especially as both countries only have 3 ...

The main team who want the rules changed are Moan U ,who think it is their right to get a bye to the semis at least ! If this scum team had their way the Champions League would only have 8 teams in it. In fact why not just have a competition for english, Italians and Spanish only. Barcelona , won it...

The only item I look up on the official site is the match report of the reserves just because it lists the players and subs. It is interesting to see who is playing at that level. I agree the english site is crap, but with Ajax.Usa and of course the Ajaxtalk forum we english speaking non dutchies ar...

There is an article about Maxwell in the April WorldSoccer. It says he has a clause in his contract that says the sell on price is a maximum £8.5M expires 2006 and all the top clubs after him etc. Like VDV he is not placing his best and I am not sure he will go to one of the really big teams. I pred...

I agree with the above posts. With 9 games to go and the season over a question for you regulars who watch them: Maxwell, Trabelsi and VDV have all said they are off at the end of the season, would you keep them in the team? It cannot be good for any team that 3 regulars are just going through the m...

2-0 down at half time. Don't see us coming back into the game.

After today we can only hope for third place and UEFA Cup next season.

I think our latest local from the great production line of the Ajax youth scheme should be given a post now that he has broken into the senior Dutch team. My congratulations to Hedwiges for getting picked after just 2 league games and a cup game.Is this a Dutch record, does anyone remember anyone el...

Just to wish all of you a great time in Holland and hope you enjoy a win tomorrow.

There was a good story on Football Mundial on Sky today about Felipe. They were looking at good young prospects from South America U20 He is highly thought of in Brazil and as a left wing back he wants to emulate Roberto Carlos. He said his marking skills have been improved since being with Ajax and...

Good news as the AZ game will probably be shown on Channel 5 over here(but not live) It would not be shown if it were on a Wednesday.

The original game was scheduled for Channel 5 hence the groan from me when it was called off.

Some random thoughts: It does not help that 3 of the team VDV,Maxwell and Trabelsi are all set to leave at the end of the season. Some players have been built up to be world beaters when they are not. VDV Sneijder and especially Heitinga. At the start of the season Heitinga was supposed to interest ...

Blind may have cocked up with buying players 5/6 years ago but we now have alot of young players coming through that he has coached. The team will know him and he is Ajax through and through. I hope the first job he does is to decide on the right position for Nigel De Jong . I only mention this as I...

I have been impressed with Jol in his short time in UK . Big problem with Spurs is that they do not have the finances to get into the European Champions League with Chelski, Moan u Arsenal, and the likes of Liverpool and Newcastle around. He will only ever have to be content to qualify for UEFA Cup ...