How Did Ajax Get This Far in the Champions League?
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- How did Ajax get this far in the Champions League?
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Ajax is a club that has had its fair share of behind-the-scenes upheaval. For a team with such a clear identity - a certain style of football, the cultivation of young talent, protecting the legacy of Cruyff - Ajax can seem oddly factional.
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#ajax #frenkiedejong #championsleague
I'll bet Justin Kluivert is having second thoughts about leaving the club now
loool why? This is just a fluke season and they'll be back to mediocrity after getting slapped by Barcelona in the final lmaoo🤣
Which team is he managing?
_BAKZ_ salty spuds fan detected
@@_bakz_3682 they are still in ucl almost every season. Roma didbt qualify for next year
vivek hemb
no, not Patrick. His son Justin followed in his footsteps as a player through the Ajax academy.
Pls do an analysis on how Bielsa organises his underwear drawer
Im dead
Lmfao
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hahahaha.....
hahaha bangsattt
The Overmars coup is slightly wrong. He didnt break with the Cruijff philosophy but actually finally started implementing it. Cruijff always said that if you can buy a quality player that can improve your team, you should do it. He just didn't want to have the club buy players for squad depth, that is what the youth is for.
Juist
@Stephen Kelly The whole cruijff revolution is actually wrongly understood by most people and media. Back in (around) 2011 Ajax was broke because of mismanagent and couldn't afford expensive players anymore so Cruijff basically took over and ordered more use of our great academy. Especially to prevent buying expensive players for squad depth. But he also said then that when Ajax did have money again (which is for a while now) they should always look to sign quality players that improve the squad in addition to the own youth players. That is what is happening now but it feels like people never picked up on that and I keep hearing stories about how the club broke with the Cruijff philosophy but that is just not true. They finally started implementing it completely.
@Stephen Kelly It's quite complicated and I don't really know where to start and what exactly happened, but I'll try to explain what I can. To anyone who knows more, please don't crucify me for any mistakes I made, but do correct them because I would also like to know what was really going on.
Ajax has had a weird directional structure over the last couple of years. When Cruijff made his coup he put in place something called the 'technical heart'. This consisted of a couple of former players who would make important decisions together. At the time it consisted of Edwin van der Sar, who also became general director of the club but since he had no experience someone else was actually running the show while Van der Sar learned from him how to do this job, Frank de Boer, who was head coach at the time, Dennis Bergkamp, one of the assistant coaches, and Wim Jonk, who was head of the Youth Academy. Jonk was also technically in charge of this structure, but the other members of the technical heart could outvote him. At this time, Overmars was not yet involved. He was still working as technical director at Go Ahead Eagles, and while he would leave for Ajax in 2012, he did play a role in Erik ten Hag getting his first coaching job at Go Ahead that year. Ten Hag would guide them to promotion before leaving for Bayern Munich. Meanwhile, Overmars would join the technical heart and become head of recruitment.
In 2015, Jonk had a falling out with the direction over the execution of Cruijff's plans, and he would leave Ajax over this. At this point, Bergkamp became head of the technical heart and took over de facto control of the club. Frank de Boer would also leave Ajax at the end of this season, and be replaced with Peter Bosz. Bosz did a good job as coach, bringing Ajax to the Europa League final, but not winning any accolades for the club. Bosz wanted to change things in the summer, and had a falling out with Bergkamp over this. I believe Overmars was on Bosz' side and Van der Sar on Bergkamp's side, but Bosz left not feeling full support of the club and having a lucrative offer of Borussia Dortmund in his pocket.
Following Bosz leaving, there was a disagreement over who would be his successor. I believe Overmars wanted to bring in Michael Laudrup, who had experience coaching at Swansea and was a former Ajax man, but Bergkamp wanted to promote Marcel Keizer, who had won the Eerste Divisie with Young Ajax last year and knew the club from the inside, but didn't have much first team coaching experience and while he had played for Ajax, he didn't have the name Laudrup did. Since Van der Sar sided with Bergkamp again, Keizer got the job. However, the Ajax fans didn't like him and when he failed to qualify for Europe, getting kicked out by Nice from the CL and Rosenborg from the EL, his sacking was inevitable. The reason he probably wasn't sacked then is that it was known the situation was difficult with the tragedy that happened to Abdelhak Nouri that summer having had a massive impact on the players. Therefore, it took until december, when Ajax lost to FC Twente on penalties and thus was also kicked out of the KNVB Cup, before he was fired. Bergkamp, having pushed through Keizer's appointment, was also pushed aside, and the way for Overmars was cleared to take control.
He brought in Erik ten Hag, who had done a good job as coach of FC Utrecht, and with Ten Hag on his side he now has a majority control of the technical heart as far as I am aware, and if it even still exists. It still almost failed, as Ajax didn't perform much better than under Keizer the second half of last season, and the fans already started rumbling, but when Ajax qualified for the CL this season his job for the near future was secured and the rest is history.
Cruijff wilde van Ajax een Barça satelliet maken, alleen maar jong inkopen/opleiden en verkopen. 0 ambitie om het hoog te schoppen.
Cruijff is een legende... Maar niemand is groter dan de AFCA!
Jij begrijpt het, broer.
Where is my daily Marcelo Bielsa video???
lol . was fed up by the 3 continuous videos on him
Alfredo Gago Hahahah 😂👌
tifo football was freed by the police from bielsa ...........
Don't worry. Ten Hag got influenced by Guordiola who got influenced by Bielsa. Bielsa is Everywhere. Lol😜
He lost to Ipswich... that's what happened
I don't know why they say Ten Hag doesn't have any previous connection to Ajax when he's clearly the guy from the logo.
Our previous 3 coaches are all bald and have a beard.
Good one shirey. Joris what about de boer
diego He’s bald down below! 😜
@@arnoudkulk7619 LOL! That's funny!!
He's a bosz impressionist
Rumor has it that Guardiola subscribes to this channel
I started that rumor!!
@@NphiniT State the source of your information 😅
@@b.b4229 The Atlethic ofcourse
i hope ajax win this year's champions league
Silently Murdered that woulf shut those salty barca fans up
Would be nice to see a new team winning the champions league and this ajax team has the potential to stand their ground against Barcelona
@@silentlymurdered9128 Ajax winning it isn't exactly a new team. Ajax has won it 4 times, in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995, and were runner-up in 1969 to Milan and in 1996 to Juventus. Only Real, Liverpool, Bayern, Milan and Barcelona have won it more. But in the current situation it's refreshing to see a team from outside the big 4 leagues, the last time a team from outside these leagues even got to the final was in 2005, with Porto vs Monaco, and before that it was also Ajax, in 1996.
@@jackodees1765 i was talking about the current situation 4 times by real madrid once by barcelona. So yeah ajax winning would be a rather nice change.
Kasper Kleine Tank you never know man they beat the champions real and juve with Ronaldo
You missed one key moment for Ajax. There was a meeting held between the board (Overmars and van der Sar) and the group of key players (de Ligt, de Jong, Kluivert, Ziyech, Onana, Neres, Tagliafico and may be some others). The board promised to strengthen squad in the midseason and the players promised to stay together for at least 1 year. So Ajax kept rejecting multiple offers for their players. And in transfer market Ajax were looking for a leftfooted dutch-speaking centreback to pair de Ligt with, so the only options were Blind and Vertoghen. The other major transfer goal was an attacking line player with knowledge of Eredivisie so that no time is wasted on adaptation. Tadic was perfect in that regard. So instead of typical midseason which included losing CL-qualifiers, sometimes even EL-qualifiers, selling best players and replacing them with unproven youth Ajax kept the squad intact (except for Kluivert) Ajax instead went on to qualify for CL.
Fully agree - i think it was a great and vital move from Overmars and vd Sar to show these guys that staying another year can really benefit them to getting to bigger clubs (it was in fact these 7 guys: André Onana, Matthijs de Ligt, Frenkie de Jong, Donny van de Beek, David Neres, Justin Kluivert en Kasper Dolberg). After Bosz left I thought we lost momentum, but i think Overmars and vd Sar really showed some great direction and willpower. They really have grown in their roles and are now leading the club to even higher peaks. Fantastic.
They play like a team, not just as individuals
Luka Vukovic Unlike Juve who got carried by Ronaldo
@@dmohamed3588 unlike boxnaldo who got carried by juve
Your right Luka. Hvala + Volim te Tadic :)
Drew both games against Bayern Munich
Eliminated Real Madrid and Juventus..
Ajax deserve to win the UCL imo...they play like Barca 2009 but with less talented players..
VB MUTT They might have just as talented players just not as experienced
Experienced*
and Ajax don’t need UEFA to cheat for them to win it :)
(VERY salty Chelsea fan)
G...no penalty for Ballack’s Handball, Abidal wrongly sent off, Ballack should’ve been sent off in the first leg..
I agree there were many calls in favour of Barca but there were also calls in favour of Chelsea across the 2 legs..
VB MUTT you may think they’re less talented but in reality their stature is the factor you’re pinpointing. Players become legends through continued performance. Just keep that in mind. You’ll look back at these guys in 10-12 years and say what a great Ajax team they were. It’s always a hindsight perspective
there it is. ten hag was at bayern when pep was running things. I knew there had to be a beilsa/cruyff connection here somewhere
It's AJAX of course there is a Cruijff connection XD
Matt Majcan 😂😂😂😂
Ajax is Cruyff and Cruyff is Ajax. Anyone who disagrres and says Barca is in the 1st place is wrong. Please know your history
There is always a Bielsa connection in tifo's videos
The structured way that Pep coaches is from Van Gaal. Cruyff was never a man for the details in the way Van Gaal and Guardiola are. Pep says that he didn’t talk to anyone about tactics and systems more than he did with Van Gaal. Bielsa said Van Gaals Ajax team influenced him in his early years with the high press and the 3-7 system. Cruyff complains about Overmars and Van Der Sar in his autobiography for not being coached by him and so knowing little about tactics. They were coached by Van Gaal as were many others that have gone on to become good non playing staff at football clubs around Europe. Funny how people overlook these things.
Reason Number One:
Ajax is really good.
Adam Heitner reason number two: they work bloody hard
But not good enough to beat spurs...
Although Ajax lost, they did a good job of proving that Ajax is a force to be reckoned with in the 21st century football. I always remember Ajax back in 1995 when they won the champions league and the etedevisie and the Dutch super cup in an unbeaten run for a whole year
@@Seedy-pz3gd at least Brighton is🙃
brilliant analysis
Next video: "how Jose finished 2nd with a bunch of twats"🤝
Ziyech brings the creativity , De jong the calmness and de ligt blocks every attacker.
And then there's blind, solid as rock
Tadic and neres deserve a shout out, also tagliafico brings alot of passion.
White Pill Forum what the fuck, did you forget about van der beek
Frenkie De Jong and potentially Matthijs De Ligt, future Barcelona players, they definitely have Barca’s DNA after bottling a 3-0 lead ...
Ouch.
Bad luck to all Ajax fans. Your team did you proud and please ignore the foul mouthed comments from some of these so called fans. Well done to all the four teams who played in this years exciting semi finals. Best wishes from England !!
Still waiting for a tactical analysis of the mighty Lee Cattermole
Gegenpressing might be a German word but was invented by the Dutch in the 70's..
the dutch didn't exactly invent pressing or forechecking in football, it was done in the late 60's by dinamo kiev for example under maslov. the dutch made it famous though, first at Ajax under Michels and at Feyenoord under happel and then in the national team. the word "gegenpressing" is just german for "counter pressing", meaning you immediately start pressing when you're caught in possession. this is commonly associated with klopp at dortmund, which is why the german word is popular now, but also with guardiola and pochettino.
@@artur297 No! It was invented in Ghana!!
artur297 hungary played it as well in the Puskas age as well as Austria before 1960.
Give credit to Johnny Sins for doing so well in his first dabble in football management.
This cracked me up LMAO
😂🤣
Kluivert you kinda missed out bro...
The key is bald men coaching a team
Marcelo won’t be too happy with this one
Meanwhile,Marcelo Bielsa's spies have let go Tifo Football creators.
because they listen to three little birds by bob marley.. duuh 🙄
would love to see a match between this Ajax side and AS Monaco of 16-17
would be a great spectacle
Chinmay Wagh this Ajax side would win 100%
@@mack2287 no it won't loool. This ajax team is the most overrated team in history, can't wait for them to get slapped up by Barcelona lmaoo
@@_bakz_3682 If you beat Real Madrid and Juventus you're not overrated bro.
i've seen @_BAKZ_ commenting shit about Ajax all the time.
You are either a Juventus, Real Madrid, Feyenoord or PSV supporter.
Stop trying to convince people that Ajax is overrated or lucky. And just accept the fact that Ajax is phenomenal. They have showed the football world multiple times.
@@jari9015 Could be a salty Man Utd 'fan' too. Wouldn't surprise me.
Too bad they are all gonna be bought by the big clubs.
Onana, Neres, Mazraoui, Tagliafico, Tadic, Blind and Huntelaar have all already confirmed they will stay. Frenkie de Jong already agreed with Barca, and De Ligt and Ziyech will most likely leave. Probably vd Beek will also stay another year. So not that bad at all for next season, as they have also already signed new talented players and of course new youngsters are coming through
It's not bad at all. Dutch teams like ajax are known to produce quality players and their mentality is not to win trophies but to cultivate new, young talent. There will be more frenkie de jongs and more van de beeks. They'll also have a lot more money from those transfers to be able to provide the best training and atmosphere possible. They couldn't ask for more
Not all of them. Only De Jong, De Ligt, Ziyech will leave
@@heavenlydenied there won't be another frenkie de jong in at least 20 years
@@civilservant9528 ajax gona produce to frenkie de jong
Ajax and Holland team one the most interesting team in the world. Ajax young talent the best in the world. Love ❤️ from Malaysia 🇲🇾.
Marcus Rakyat thank you mate, we had some bad years but we will be back
Hope everything went well tonight for the CL semifinals against Spurs. Final vs Liverpool in Madrid will be great game.
ajax and the Netherlands not ajax and Holland
Goeiedag daar.
Tifo: Let's make loads of videos about Marco Bielsa
Marco Bielsa: I just lost to Ipswich town somehow...
Tifo: Let's forget Marco Bielsa ever existed
Isp.. Ipsitch.. Is... How do you say it?
10/10 for analysis. Consistently producing amazing stuff.
I still can't believe ajax won against bayern, real Madrid and juventus to then lose it to tottenham 😪
They drew with Bayern in both legs
Conclusion: if you want to be trainer of Ajax, you have to be bald.
An with beard😂
@@Imanebel0604 Basically head on upside down!
Not the same, but in FIFA I knocked out Athletico Mardrid, Man City, and Juventus with Rangers
the AI are retarded lol
This video is now gold for us united fans
I need a hug right now....
Bad luck to all Ajax fans. Your team did you proud and please ignore the foul mouthed comments from some of these so called fans. Well done to all the four teams who played in this years exciting semi finals. Best wishes from England !!
They are in a golden period right now, they have produced many quality players at the same time, all are of same age group and that's very very lucky.
SKG UTD Blind and Zyiech might be older
Santiago Ruival But Ziyech didn’t came from Ajax youth.
Tadic 30
De ligt 19
Schone 32
De jong 21
Huntelaar 35
Van de Beel 21
Blind 28
Mazraoui 21
Ziyech 24
Sawhatnow?
And also how is PRODUCING many quality players very very lucky?
@@Markovv It's not lucky to produce quality players, what I actually meant they hv large number of quality players at the same time, and that's lucky
Its not luck, they finally have the money to keep a team together (for atleast 1 year). If Ajax could keep all their players from the last 15 years instead of selling them. They would have been a powerhouse.
Ziyech is underated
How you can you guys forget to mention Lasse Schøne? -_-
As a Bayern fan, I deeply wish that Erik Ten hag goes to Bayern next, his style is the best for Bayern, and he is the best coach for developing young talents.
Barca vs Ajax .
Bcoz of Ajax of the past we have Barcelona of the present.
Respect for Ajax.
Forca Barca
Dream final for cruyff !
Johan Cruijff , dream final and tribute to the football vision of Cruijff .
What a final it will be
@@afca8823 rinus michels to johan cruyff : TOTAL FOOTBALL.
Wish he was still alive
Thank you, very informative video. But where's the usual voice guy, please? He's kinda synonymous with the Tifo vids.
He's on vacation
But Tottenham is going to the finals !
bhagyajit das no one asked lol
Here after, Ajax got knocked out by spurs in the last dying second!
@spittahfire: Tautology! last or dying second(s), not both.
David Copson It’s last not (or)* in correction you dumb fuck.
beautiful video with the music and graphic, this makes me feel like ajax is in the middle of a revolution against moneyball (like guardiola) and defensive anti-football (like Mourinho), which makes me so proud as an Ajax fan and fan of dutch football. Just Realise the amazement if they go all the way and beat spurs and Barca in the final. 140 million for Coutinho against 14 million for Tadic. Wtf....
what sucks is that de Jong is leaving to Barca and de ligt might follow suit either with de Jong or elsewhere, Ajax is a club power that hasn't been respected as such in recent years, they deserve to be put on the same pedestal as Liverpool, barca, Bayern, Man U, Madrid etc
Tottenham for example gets 100 000 000$ from TV rights alone, Ajax can only get that kind of money by selling 2 best players. Money is still important and Ajax doesn't have as much money
No mention of how key Lasse Schöne is to this ajax side? :(
That zayech is real class. Always looking forward to see him play. Cant wait for the game tommorow, Ajax really stole my heart.
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Load of crap what you said about Cruyff. Cruyff always said to purchase player if they give the team a quality injection if the youth isn't good enough. Check your facts please.
Yeah but Cruyff implemented the salary cap at ajax, thus making buying quality players virtually impossible in today's football. If Overmars had followed the directions of Cruyff on this matter ajax would be struggling in Europa league instead of winning in the CL right now
@@slungellife The salary cap was implemented as a short term situation anyway to get the club back in the black after some heavy debt.
this Ajax squad reminds me of *AS Monaco 2016/2017*
young, talented, and lots of potential. hopefully they wont go down the same path as Monaco 2 years later (not the club, but the players being poached by other clubs) :'(
It's Ajax, they will NEVER go away
Ajax is one of the most historic clubs in football history. They will never ever go down.
Monaco? LOL. How long have you watched football? Check *Ajax 1995*. They basically won Champions League with "kids".
@@marcsugi yes im aware of that squad. in terms of young talent there's also the class of 92 from Manchester United, Borrusia Dortmund's 12/13. what i mean is young players will be tempted/lured by lucrative offers or the chance to play with established giants of the game, i. e. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus etc. im not comparing their playing style, im comparing the potential outcome
see how borrusia's squad got torn apart: nuri sahin to real madrid, kagawa to Manchester United, Lewandowski, Hummels & Gotze to bayern,
Monaco: Mbbape to PSG, Lemar to Atletico Madrid, Bakayoko to Chelsea, Mendy & Bernado Silva to Manchester City, Fabinho to Liverpool.
Kluivert already went to roma, de jong is going to Barcelona. what's next? de ligt? van de beek? loyalty is barely existent in today's football, gone were the totti, carragher and gerrard. im just saying
@@marcsugi btw, i googled, after winning the champions league: seedorf left for Sampdoria in 95, reiziger & edgar davids went to AC Milan in 96, Kanu to Inter Milan in 96, Marc Overmars to Arsenal in 97, Kluivert to AC Milan in 97
I can't remember Cruijff ever saying that Ajax shouldn't buy any players and should only focus on our own youth. Thats the big misconception there is, especially amongst journalist.
It is true though that Bergkamp kept the big signings away and constantly tried to replace our best players with youngsters who havent proven anything. A big mistake and it lead to 4 years without prizes.
Overmars and van der Sar did do a coup when they fired Keizer, a man who was put in the position of head coach bij his friend Bergkamp while Keizer himself admitted he didnt feel ready for the job yet. For some reason Bergkamp had a lot of influence and power within the club without having a position in which he had to take responsibillity for the results, he wasnt the coach, he wasnt the tecnical director, he was part of the technical heart of Ajax where all decisions were made.
When Overmars and van der Sar sacked Keizer Bergkamp was passed and his position was no longer sustainable. Its sad to say this about a legend of our club, but he had to go.
Overmars and van der Sar do now what in my opinion always has been the true vision of Cruijff, rely on our youth acadamy, make money this way to grow the club financially and to reinvest it in the academy and add to those youngsters a couple of more experienced players who want to play for Ajax, not just for the salary they receive like most pro players these days just play for the cash.
And see where we are, semi finals and before that even Europa League final!
This is why we are Ajax fans, this is what makes us love our club so much, our own identity, our own hero's who we watched growing up playing in our own attacking style. There can't be many clubs with a more awesome vision and legacy as Ajax and I will always be a proud fan.
I mean, how sad must it be if your club gets bought by some billionaire who just wants to show off how small his pee pee is? Must be sad to be a City fan, Chelsea fan or PSG fan, no legacy, no history, no own identity, just some bought throphies....
To me this shows how influential cruyff was. What a genius that man was.
Great analysis video. One player that is often forgotten as instrumental to this Ajax doing well is Lasse Schöne. A very experienced midfielder who had been with Ajax for a long time. While he didn't have a lot of stand-out qualities apart from his free kicks, to me he always seemed like a highly intelligent player who made everyone else play better.
We're missing the likes of De Ligt, De Jong, Ziyech and van der Beek a lot now, as evident by our performance in the Champions League, but I definitely wouldn't discard Schöne's influence on the great season discussed in this video.
Why don't you mention that Marc Overmars, their Technical Director, was part of "Dus Wunderkind" of Ajax 1995? Youngest team that won Champions League by fielding players averaging only 23 years old, mostly homegrown academy kids?
You should make a video about Abdelhak Nouri #34❌❌❌
He would have made this team even better as he was the best of the trio of De ligt, De jong and himself Stay Strong Appie
It was the reason he chose 34 to help win number 34 so let’s do it for him
I have a dream. The 34th title in the 34th round with a goal from Donny in the 34th minute like against Juventus ❌❌❌ dreams are now🙏
@@leonheemskerk4182 really sad too think about the fact that he could have been better at this time then De Jong and De ligt.
I would like one day to see a video focusing on Pitso Mosimane, he's a South African coach doing the most in African football
I prefer to see Benni McCarthy because he's doing the most with the rejects of the league. Pitso gets the best players and new one's ever years
@@pike101000 so he's basically like pep Guardiola then?
Sorry, but you seem to miss the fact that Ziyech is the key player in ajax, you also failed to mention Mazraoui, the guy is impressive
I agree
@@Imanebel0604 yak a lmrdia :D
They finished top 2 in group stage, smashed Real Madrid in the round of 16, beat Juventus out of the quarter finals, that is how they got to the semi finals.
Any United fans watching this👋
Cruijff was of the opinion that signings should be a direct help to the team, to fill gaps where players from the academy couldn't be found. He never discounted their role, they just had to be the exception, with the rule being young talent. A lot of what he actually tried to implement post-2010 can be read in the 2015 report of his confidant Tscheu La Ling, where it's all summarized. Most of it had little to do with the first squad, but with the training in the academy instead, which is where Cruijff's philosophy really comes into play: I don't think it's a coincidence that that generation of vd Beek, De Ligt and Nouri all came through during that time.
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I bet Kluivert is kicking himself for leaving to go to Roma and the ever-striven-for Europa League
Hakim ziyech is underrated!
Waar zijn mijn nederlandse matties
Pressed like on this video ever before start watching. Perfect subject for TF today. Thanks and kudos TF.
Ajax have produced quality players and they deserve to win the champions league
-Liverpool Fan
Yeah you'll say that after the first leg won't you.
@@samvitjatia951 uh I'd delete your comment if I where you
I believe Liverpool deserves to win after that comeback.
Sa sad that cruyff is not with us to witness this ajax going to the ucl semis and remember he was the one who set in motion this young team back in 2011.
You can’t focus on youth exclusively, so I’m happy that we aren’t doing that. Tadic has been played as a striker in the Eredivisie more often than Huntelaar and Dolberg in recent months.
I'm from Serbia and Tadic was always a joy to watch in the national team he plays like it's the finals even in friendly matches, if other players in the team were as motivated and creative as Tadic, Serbia wouldn't have been an average team.
Who is here after Ajax Amsterdam 2-3 Tottenham Hotspurs
The revival of Ajax on the European stage includes making young players write lines about the club being best in the world...
Johan Cruyff would not have argued against the coming of quality players such as Blind and Tadic. In fact, personally, Johan was a big fan of Daley Blind as a player. The point he tried to make was, focus on youth, but never close your eyes to quality from outside. It just shouldn't be the standard to buy players from the outside, when you're basis should be the youth academy. Ajax drifted from that idea many years, until Cruyff stepped in.
Hakim Ziyech is criminally overlooked in this squad. He's been much more than just the creative winger for years now.
U r right he's the key of Ajax
Let me guess... because of Marcelo Bielsa?
Am hoping we won't see ' what the hell happened to AJAX ' 😂 am a Chelsea fan .. I love our group btw
Samuel Kagunye goodluck in the CL❌❌❌
@@aanslag.geit123 😂😂😂 thanks ...
To your team too 😂
Cruijff actually said that its perfectly fine to buy an older, expensive, player.
But he needs to improve the Squad. Buying for the sake of buying was and is against everything cruijff stands for.
Cruijff would be proud if he could see how Ajax is run nowadays.
Also, Overmars had been in charge longer than 1.5 yr ago.
Longer than 1.5 years, but that’s when he consolidated his hold on things.
It's not true that Cruijff was in favor of an absolute salary cap..., having a number of experienced older players is totally in line with the philosophy of Cruijff...
Salary cap wasnt that bad in the beginning. And it was to prevent from buying older player that arent worth there salary, a thing that happed in the past. And you could always give them a high signing fee and lower wage so there isnt too much drama in the lockerroom. But it went so fast with the money and wages got up so fast in whole of football that they needed to remove the cap to be competitive again. Nothing really wrong with that because they can afford it.
Mark Albert Luque got 3.5 million a year at Ajax... cant believe we ever paid such amount for such (sorry nothing Personal) worthless player!
@@VeniVidiAjax And there were many more examples in de eredivisie. So a salary cap wasnt a wrong idea at the time. But the wages went so quick up in football that their salary cap didnt make any sense. But if a player like Luque would earn almost 4 times as much as big talents you get drama in the locker room. But now they have the money to pay more for players who deserve it. Im really curious what talents they will attract now they are riding this wave of succes and good publicity. If I was a talent in south america, Ajax would be my nr1 choice in europe.
I dont have to watch the whole video. Its because Ziyech plays for Ajax
Have you seen him in the last WC with Marocco? He's an incredible player, but he needs good players around him. Like De Jong, Vd Beek and De Ligt. And his chemistry with Tadic is unreal. In the beginning of the season, there were questions if these 2 could play toghether as leaders / ego's. But only seem to compliment each other and even switch side during games.
@@wouterlevering4296 also because of the nr10 switching
Buying players doesn't actually go against Cruijff, Johan wanted to focus on youth cause Ajax was financially in a bad position, however Johan said once we are financially "healthy" we should buy expertise & skilled players that will make it easier for the young & skilled players to reach a high level & get corrected by the expert players when needed. (While the youth allways being the main focus and ONLY buy players when we can't put someone from our own youth team there.)
This video surely didn't age well
Why this man sound like a Google translate voice
Heres me hoping for Ten Hag to become the new manager of Bayern.
Kluivert could've done that what Blind does: follow in the footsteps of his father. Legendary status missed for money. I am sure the others will earn more now as well.
A-dutch-Z Apparently it was Justin's mother and his agent who wanted him to make a transfer. His father, Patrick wanted him to stay another year. Justin unfortunately didn't listen to his father. Although he has been decent so far at Roma, he could have been part of this historic Era.
@@yao052 Yep. He chose wrongly.
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Bec they have passion . They play for their pride and not money. They always give it all in every match
As a Feyenoord fan I really enjoyed watching this Ajax-team. Great play and really advertisment for the sport. Though, I will never forget that exactly this season, with this team, Feyenoord beat them with 6-2... for the rest, we suck, but that game... pfff. Van Persie and Toornstra were destroying this Ajax team. And that was an achievement, because anyone could see that this Ajax-team was world-class.
0:35 The auto-generated captions thought "Dušan Tadić" was "Jews and Haddock".
Ten Hag has been a fan of cruyff and his ideas and implemented it on his game, after witnessing guardiola at Bayern he became a student of his manners and modernised it to his ideas. I think he can develop in a really great coach and stays at Ajax for as long as possible.
Great tactical setup but can be beaten by mousa sissoko and fernando llorente
nandan konety | EXACTLY!
This “tactical analysis” is a load of old horseshit. Football isn’t played on a piece of paper. Sissoko came on and smashed them to pieces in the 1st leg. As for the 2nd leg, their ‘gengenpressingwaffle’ was completely nullified by...punting it up to Llorente 🤦♂️ It took their entire midfield out. Hilarious.
Too many people who put these ‘analysis’ videos together have never kicked a ball in their life, let alone played at a decent level. They’re impressed by pretty diagrams. Cool, bro. Means fuck all though. All this smoke being blown up Ajax’s arse and yet they were soooo fucking easily taken apart 🤷♂️
Better teams ARE actually like Tottenham. ‘Game plan’ irrelevant after 4mins and staring down the barrel at 45. Manager motivates, makes a killer change and reminds them of the fundamentals. The team is galvanised and emerges ruthless and unstoppable. Shove your ‘tactics’ up your arse.
That’s football. And THAT is why we love it.
D L Yes that why they lost 2-0
MaybeRob Who lost 2-0?
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General question: When players are on a team in the semifinal of the champion's league is it OK to stop calling them "potential" world-class footballers? I realize that some may be riding a wave of successful team chemistry but the potential seems to sell Onana and Neres contributions short.
Defensively they were shocking. Run at them with the ball and they were falling over eachother.
What's the name.of the music at the end? Zzz. Good vid man 😍
And..they're out! Lol but that's off to them great team!
Great game and well done to all four teams who played in this years semi finals.
Despite the importance of the addition of Tadic and Blind, I think it's all started with the sale of Milik for 35 million. With that money they invested on Ziyech and Neres and made a huge improvement going to the Europa League final the year after.
Good point, that.
@@Tifo Great job guys. The best football content on RUclips. Enjoy every video in this channel (y)
What I learned from watching these videos.... If you want beautiful football get yourselves a bald coach.
Lol true 😂😂
Pep is overrated, spent billions and still couldn't knock out a spurs side who haven't signed anyone for two transfer windows🤭
@@_bakz_3682 He did still win 6 trophies in his first season at Barcelona.
He made Messi who he is, he mouled the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pique into the players they are today.
Tonight its gonna happen!!
Ajax have chance to win champions league this season!!
Although barca are favourite to win !!
It’s actually very simple, it’s because WIJ ZIJN AJAX AJAX ZIJN DE BESTE 🙌🙌❌❌❌🔥🔥💯💯🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
Mengecawakan.. Ajax kalah ama Hotspur... 🤦♂️
A rather fortunate coincidence that both Ajax and Barcelona - of all teams - have reached the semi-finals against the Premier League representatives. I'd wager the concept of lesser leagues and quality football needs an update, as I've seen better passing and more exciting football in the 90s J-League than most Premier League games provide on occasion. Developing youth teams properly seems to payoff in waves of strange consistency versus building first teams from scratch by buying out the best from elsewhere, makes one think why this model isn't used more frequently - even when money can be made by selling surplus squad players or star players eventually.
The way some premier league teams play reminds me of how my country Serbia plays football, there is individual quality but team play is painfull. btw in recent days i sometimes remember that Liverpool lost 2-0 against serbian side in Champions league this seasion and laugh a bit, when i mention it to other people they laugh to lol How was that win even possible
@@1GTX1 IIRC I think I managed to catch that one live on the tv.
Overmars seems the perfect guy for arsenal ruthless