AFC Ajax Thread[2007/2008]

[van der vaart]

Another sad day for Ajax.. And i thought that it was over with bad news. We lost great player, real leader on the pitch.. He played for us just year and a half but it felt like he was Ajacied for much longer.. Good luck Japie! we'll miss you..

 

[Hopeunited]

I'm here to pay my respect to the great Jaap Stam. :Bow:

R.I.P. Jaap's illustrious career.

 

[Zlatan]

I think he thought he didn't want to be part of this mess anymore. Also his father recently died which probably made him think what he's doing this all for. He said Ajax was the best club in Holland and he was proud to play for us. That's it Jaap! Hail to the 'rots van Kampen'.

 

[Silencer]

Martin Jol??

Well well it seems that Martin Jol told the media today that if Ajax asks him to be our coach he wants to really consider it hmmm who knows. I think he's a whole lot better than Koster so I say bring him in!
Today Gregory v.d. Wiel will sub for Jaap against Heerenveen.
Hopefully we will perform well and beat them in de ArenA for the cup.
GO AJAX!

And some good news:
Edgar Davids is back in training and will make his return back to the squad probably within a few weeks
I think he will become our new captain as well.

 

[Zlatan]

Yeah, I say sign Jol now. I don't see us winning the title with Koster(certainly now that Jaap is gone).

Other intresting news: VI is reporting that we're trying to sign Aissati again. Last summer it seemed rather unrealistic that PSV would allow him to go, but he isn't playing much of late so maybe they will let him go in the winter. I think that would be a nice signing if it would happen, could be the replacement for Wes we we're looking for.

 

[Silencer]

Aissati is a great asset for any team and he's unhappy warming up the bench with PSV since Perez came.
But more interesting news is that Koeman resigned with PSV to go to Valencia as of today so if we want Jol we better move in fast otherwise they will sign him I think

 

[Vagegast]

"Hoewel in Amsterdam nog steeds wordt gedacht dat Ajax zaligmakend is, is de realiteit geheel anders. In Eindhoven wordt al jaren met veel bewondering gekeken naar de Amsterdamse bluf, die slechts is gebaseerd op een ver verleden." -- Taco van den Velde



50 bucks says Aissati will never sign for Ajax... he wants to go to a club outside of Holland..

 

[Zlatan]

"Hoewel in Amsterdam nog steeds wordt gedacht dat Ajax zaligmakend is, is de realiteit geheel anders. In Eindhoven wordt al jaren met veel bewondering gekeken naar de Amsterdamse bluf, die slechts is gebaseerd op een ver verleden." -- Taco van den Velde

1-5.

 

[Vagegast]

How does that take away from the facts? 1-5 what... ok we beat them. how many times have they beaten us in the past 5 years, how many times have they won the league. psv outdoing us isn't something new, its more than just a trend.. ajax fans need to wake up to the facts.. we've been doing horrible ever since morton olsen left.. we count ourselves to be the top of europe but we're having problems staying on top of our own league.. we've sucked for the past 8 years or so and i cant wait for the day where i wake up where ajax wins the league with ease, rules europe and does it with a squad that's made of players from our own youth.

if you are satisfied with ajax' performances lately, youre not an ajax fan.

 

[Zlatan]

How does that take away from the facts? 1-5 what... ok we beat them. how many times have they beaten us in the past 5 years, how many times have they won the league.

We beat them and how. They didn't stand a chance, which proves that we atleast match them. So our feeling of superiority isn't only based on a far gone passed. Which I BTW don't find that long ago. Only 10 years ago we were owning the world and for a big club that would be far too long ago, but for a club who every year sees there own grown stars go to big guns with alot of money it is an outstanding performance.

psv outdoing us isn't something new, its more than just a trend.. ajax fans need to wake up to the facts.. we've been doing horrible ever since morton olsen left..

I disagree. Not so long ago we just missed out on a semi-final spot in the CL by an over-overtime goal. We missed the title on one goal last year. If we would've scored one goal more last season nobody would be whining, we'd be in the CL and we'd be the champions and PSV would've had to go through those nervous qualifying rounds. We just need a little bit more luck.

we count ourselves to be the top of europe

Which isn't that strange for a club that has won 4 european cups and 2 world cups. It doesn't matter that some of them are from the seventies, because we still have the reputation from that period. Foreign pronounce PSV as PSV Eindhoven(often not even knowing where that is) and still see Ajax as the biggest and most popular club from Holland. PSV would have to do alot to make that reputation changed.

but we're having problems staying on top of our own league.. we've sucked for the past 8 years or so and i cant wait for the day where i wake up where ajax wins the league with ease, rules europe and does it with a squad that's made of players from our own youth.

That's going to take a very long time. Because everytime we have a young gun he gets bought away and this happens much sooner than it used too. Players who barely performed at the highest level get bought away immediatly just because they have enormous amounts of talent. Look at Babel and Drenthe for example, they play one decent Euro U21 and immediatly they get bought away.
Now I ask you what if we could afford it not to let all of our self-trained stars go every single season. We would have a team that would own the whole world with Chivu, Maxwell, Sneijder, Van Der Vaart, Babel, Zlatan and the list goes on.

if you are satisfied with ajax' performances lately, youre not an ajax fan.

Ofcourse I'm not. Beeing thrown first out of the CL by Slavia and than out of the UEFA by Zagreb isn't nice. But I'm sure we'll get over it. I'm not going to whine: 'oh it's so bad'. Let's do something about and if we have a little bit more luck I'm sure we'll win the league again and perhaps who knows have some success in Europe again aswell.

I hate that populistic Taco van den Velde BTW.

 

[Silencer]

I agree 100% with Zlatan and I second that

Good win against Heerenveen tonight with 3-1 (Heitinga, Maduro, Klaas)
And Alves......??? never scored in de ArenA and he didn't score tonight as well
We played solid tonight with a good defense I only say one name: GREGORY VAN DER WIEL man what a talent I was really impressed by him tonight, as if he plays on the team for years

We're through to the next round let's see what Feyenothing can do against Greuning'n tomorrow.

 

[Silencer]

WE ARE NR 1 AGAIN!

After the defeat from psv yesterday and our win today against Roda (4-2) we are back in first place

Goalscorers:
Hunter (of course)
Suarez
Luque
Rommedahl (injurytime)

Luque was MoM today when he left the pitch we gave a standing ovation for him he was awesome, his freekick and corners are very dangerous for the defenders! He found his place with Ajax

A few nice things to know:

- We are the most productive team in the league with 30 goals
- Hunter and Suarez are the most productive couple in the whole of EUROPE!
- we are now 17 games undefeated in a row PROPS AJAX
- Hunter is topscorer in de Eredivisie with 11 goals

I like the way we are playing at the moment, very attacking football and the team works very very hard for a win.
Adrie Koster can stay for this season IMO, he wants attacking football and that's the way I want Ajax to play.
Our defense is good as it is with van der Wiel, Johnny, George and (today) Vertonghen.

I'm very happy!
Next week Feyenoord in de Kuip but we're not scared of them and if we play like today we will win it! (like we normally do when we play there)

 

[PSVFOREVER]

- Hunter and Suarez are the most productive couple in the whole of EUROPE!

except in Europe itself

 

[Zlatan]

except in Europe itself

1-5

 

[PSVFOREVER]

1-5

Geez, I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition!

 

[Silencer]

1-5

:Carlos*o::Carlos*o: hahaha

It was on Tele2 this afternoon so the facts are correct

1-5!!

 

[van der vaart]

Good to see so many youngsters playing (Schilder, De Jong, Van der Heijden), not to mention Vertonghen and Wan der Wiel. Our age average in starting line-up was 22,5 years old good victory, although there was very nervous last 15 min, but Rommedahl finished the business. Let's continue this wining streak and next sunday!

 

[Zlatan]

Geez, I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition!

Nah, was just waiting to deploy it once.

 

[Zlatan]

Anyone still here?
Anyway, we're now in full command after we won confidently versus Vitesse with 4-1 and Feyenoord lost to Groningen. Wooohoo!

 

[Silencer]

Yes it was a good win although the 2nd half wasn't as good as the first one, Hunter scored again
We are now the ONLY team who's undefeated in the league and the best goalscoring team to boot with 38 goals
And on top of that our attacking duo is the best team in Europe (Hunter and Suarez) so all in all a great weekend.
Especially after the loss from Feyenoord

But what about the ceremony for Jaap, it was a great goodbye for him!
The atmosphere was amazing in de ArenA this afternoon and I had a great time.

Next week NAC, another homegame and Gabri and Maduro were injured today, hopefully it's not a bad one..