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You Decide What Happened
By: Matt |
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Depending on your perspective, your reaction to this weekend’s KJH love-fest could have been one of adulation and adoration, of hero-worship and veneration of the next great saint. Or it could have been the closest thing to a funeral for Ajax’s ambitions that will be held under the guidance of the club’s top brass. [...]
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10 Things We Learned About Ajax: December Edition
By: Matt | 3 Comments
The end of the half-season is coming quickly now, and things are falling into shape. We know that we will head into the break no worse than third but most likely second. We also now know that Fiorentina lies ahead in the UEFA Cup, but there are at least ten other things we [...]
Category: Team NewsThe Next Big Thing in Amsterdam
By: Matt | 5 Comments
The rumors are already flying, and it will only get worse until either (a) the transfer window closes at the end of January or (b) some lucky striker gets purchased by Ajax or (c) Cvitanich explodes for a hat trick in his next match. One is an invitability, one an improbability, and one will [...]
Category: Team NewsMoving On, Moving Up
By: Matt | 10 Comments
Ajax 3 - NAC Breda 0
A very strong display from Ajax, dominating possession and creating goals. NAC, for their part, ran afoul of the referee and received plenty of yellows and one red. Cvitanich opened the scoring, with a nifty assist from Suarez, then Siem de Jong got attacked in the box, resulting [...]
Category: Team NewsI’ll Never Say It…
By: Matt | 6 Comments
… but I’ll type it: “I told you so, Ryan Babel.” He tires of sitting on the bench at Liverpool, wanting instead to run and play on the green grass like other young men do. So he asked to return on loan to Amsterdam, where Ajax was invested in his future success by [...]
Category: Team NewsThe Gloves Come Off: Huntelaar is Trash
By: Matt | 14 Comments
I have been biding my time for more than a few days, satisfying my own self-imposed “cooling off period.” It’s not that KJH defied my own prediction that he would wait until summer to move. It’s not the money. It’s not even the destination. It is the brazen arrogance and idiocy [...]
Category: Team NewsFortune is Blind
By: Matt | 1 Comment
Yeah, it was kinda ugly. Yeah, we were not terribly sharp. Yeah, nobody will be too impressed with Dario. And yeah, we only managed two goals against a suspect defense (as I predicted. hooray.) We were fortunate. But three points are three points, and championships are won in forgotten [...]
Category: Team NewsReal Ajacieds at Work
By: Matt | 3 Comments
(Excuse me while I exorcize some of my bitterness. It’s just a phase.) Contrary to media reports, Ajax will have enough players under contract this weekend to run a side out against Volendam on Sunday. The entire squad is not transferring in the wake of their (ahem) captain’s departure. Put that [...]
Category: Team NewsAjax Through in UEFA Cup
By: Matt | 3 Comments
We did enough last week with a terrific win at HSV to stroll on through to the knockout rounds come spring after the Hamburgers avenged their loss to us with a win against Slavia. We can finish no worse than third in the group now. I would expect this advancement satisfies the minimum [...]
Category: Team NewsWe Knew This Day Would Come…
By: Matt | 9 Comments
Preliminary reports are claiming that KJH is on his way to Real Madrid come January. Real panicked now that Ruud is ruled out for the year, and so they decided to fork over the cash for his replacement. I have been writing about this since last summer, so I am not going to [...]
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