New Players for Ajax

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » di feb 14, 2006 11:20 am

philippe schreef:I can see no need for an additionnal goalie.

Two is not enough, and we will have two next season, because Hans Vonk's contract won't be extended. That will leave us with Stekelenburg and Kenneth Vermeer. We very obviously do need a third goalie.

K.

Philippe · Bericht door **Philippe** » di feb 14, 2006 11:23 am

I see, I did not know about Vonk.

ZoefdeHaas · Bericht door **ZoefdeHaas** » di feb 14, 2006 3:28 pm

Oscar Moens is my preference

The Purple Cow · Bericht door **The Purple Cow** » di feb 14, 2006 4:13 pm

ZoefdeHaas schreef:Oscar Moens is my preference

If that's a joke, it's not very funny.

FlaFlu · Bericht door **FlaFlu** » di feb 14, 2006 11:19 pm

philippe schreef:I see, I did not know about Vonk.

Even if Vonk wasn't leaving I would still prefer Gentenaar over Vonk any day. Gentenaar is more than 4 years younger and a better goalkeeper.

Venezuelan Ajacied · Bericht door **Venezuelan Ajacied** » wo feb 15, 2006 5:58 am

So does this mean that we will not buy any right back???? Grygera has played on the right and Stam has played a couple of games on the right with Milan too.
Or those this mean bye bye Zdenek???? X'C

Cedric · Bericht door **Cedric** » wo feb 15, 2006 3:07 pm

Gentenaar signed today a contract of 3 years with Ajax :
http://www.ajax.nl/show/id=1322/contentid=45881

carcajou · Bericht door **carcajou** » wo feb 15, 2006 5:14 pm

Cedric_AeF schreef:Gentenaar signed today a contract of 3 years with Ajax :
http://www.ajax.nl/show/id=1322/contentid=45881

And an English version ;) :

http://english.ajax.nl/show/id=118083/contentid=45885

SPL · Bericht door **SPL** » wo feb 15, 2006 6:20 pm

Who is making the decisions regards new players?? Is it Blind, if so what happens if he is sacked and a new guy takes over?? If it is Blind then the Board must have faith in him??

Cedric · Bericht door **Cedric** » wo feb 15, 2006 6:42 pm

carcajou schreef: And an English version ;) :

Right, but when I posted this it was still only in dutch. ;)

SPL schreef:Who is making the decisions regards new players?? Is it Blind, if so what happens if he is sacked and a new guy takes over?? If it is Blind then the Board must have faith in him??

This is an interesting question, I asked it myself too. I would say that both Blind and van Geel take this kind of decision...

AjaxBergen · Bericht door **AjaxBergen** » wo feb 15, 2006 8:10 pm

I know Vonk is leaving, but is Gentenaar any better than him? Of course he is a bit younger, and playing for BSV sounds okey. Can't say I've seen him play, so is he potential number 1?

souras84 · Bericht door **souras84** » wo feb 15, 2006 9:39 pm

So I hope this time we got this one for free.

Neefkens · Bericht door **Neefkens** » wo feb 15, 2006 9:58 pm

:yes:

FlaFlu · Bericht door **FlaFlu** » do feb 16, 2006 12:54 am

Venezuelan Ajacied schreef:So does this mean that we will not buy any right back???? Grygera has played on the right and Stam has played a couple of games on the right with Milan too.
Or those this mean bye bye Zdenek???? X'C

I don't think that signing a new goalkeeper for zip means we won't be buying a new rightback. ;)

And about Grygera, I suspect he'll leave.

AjaxBergen schreef:I know Vonk is leaving, but is Gentenaar any better than him? Of course he is a bit younger, and playing for BSV sounds okey. Can't say I've seen him play, so is he potential number 1?

He's definitely a potential number one in my opinion. I've been hoping Ajax would sign him for a while now. He was voted best goalkeeper of the Dutch league in one of his many seasons with NEC. I believe it was the 2001/2002 season. He's a very good goalkeeper on the line.

dws · Bericht door **dws** » za feb 18, 2006 4:50 pm

Seems that Jesper Groenkjaer is interesting Ajax. I'm not too keen on this player. Groenkjaer has plenty of pace , but his crossing is very poor.

afckeeper95 · Bericht door **afckeeper95** » za feb 18, 2006 5:22 pm

dws schreef:Seems that Jesper Groenkjaer is interesting Ajax. I'm not too keen on this player. Groenkjaer has plenty of pace , but his crossing is very poor.

Where have you seen/heard this?

FlaFlu · Bericht door **FlaFlu** » za feb 18, 2006 5:26 pm

dws schreef:Seems that Jesper Groenkjaer is interesting Ajax. I'm not too keen on this player. Groenkjaer has plenty of pace , but his crossing is very poor.

As is his ability to read the game. He can be a rather selfish player as well and quite few of his former teammates seem to like him.

dws · Bericht door **dws** » za feb 18, 2006 5:39 pm

afckeeper95 schreef:
dws schreef:Seems that Jesper Groenkjaer is interesting Ajax. I'm not too keen on this player. Groenkjaer has plenty of pace , but his crossing is very poor.
Where have you seen/heard this?

www.at5.nl :xyxthumbs:

afckeeper95 · Bericht door **afckeeper95** » za feb 18, 2006 5:53 pm

dws schreef:
afckeeper95 schreef:
dws schreef:Seems that Jesper Groenkjaer is interesting Ajax. I'm not too keen on this player. Groenkjaer has plenty of pace , but his crossing is very poor.
Where have you seen/heard this?
www.at5.nl :xyxthumbs:

Cheers mate. :cheer::cheer: Seems to be from a Kicker interview in German:

kicker: Sie werden mit Ajax Amsterdam in Verbindung gebracht. (Kicker: You have been linked to Ajax)

GrÃ¶nkjaer: Ich denke nicht an einen Wechsel - aber: Ich bin 28, im besten FuÃŸballeralter, ich will spielen. (GrÃ¶nkjaer: Im not thinking about a transfer - but: I am 28, in my best football age, I want to play).

Alirght, so it doesn't seem like there's an obvious link between GrÃ¸nkjÃ¦r and Ajax. It is a very insinuating but, he uses though.. GrÃ¸nkjÃ¦r back in Ajax... I dont know.. that kid has moved around an awful lot after Chelsea and his performance does swing a lot. Also injury prone, if Im not mistaken.

Bericht door **Kowalczyk** » za feb 18, 2006 6:49 pm

I thought GrÃ¸nky was great for Ajax when he was here. One of the best players in that season. After that he's reportedly been poor everywhere he went, though... But when he was an Ajacied I had no complaints whatsoever about his crossing or his tactical insight...

K.

Feest · Bericht door **Feest** » za feb 18, 2006 6:56 pm

In a few years Ko will tell us that Rosales was great at Ajax.

AjaxBergen · Bericht door **AjaxBergen** » zo feb 19, 2006 1:51 am

I think I have a GrÃ¸nkjÃ¦r shirt hidden away somewhere so to me it would be a good transfer. And he has played well for the national team those times I've seen him, but it's been a while since I last saw him.

carcajou · Bericht door **carcajou** » zo feb 19, 2006 2:17 am

What do you think if we stopped buying shitty players and saved the money to pay big salaries to our players. That way they wouldn't leave as fast.

Maybe the youngsters would be more compelled to stay till they hit 22/23.

That's just an idea but I think that in the end it would do good to the club.

bryan · Bericht door **bryan** » zo feb 19, 2006 2:28 am

the board members might get jealous though

AsgAarD_xxx · Bericht door **AsgAarD_xxx** » zo feb 19, 2006 10:35 am

Kowalczyk schreef:I thought GrÃ¸nky was great for Ajax when he was here. One of the best players in that season. After that he's reportedly been poor everywhere he went, though... But when he was an Ajacied I had no complaints whatsoever about his crossing or his tactical insight...

K.

I really loved GrÃ¸nkjaer when he played in Ajax. He was (and still is) one of my favourite players, so this transfer will be great for me. He didn't have best time in Chelsea and in Birmingham, but I believe that he will back to his fantastic form in Ajax. And we will have good left-winger at last...