Chapter 84 Accident

"What did you say?"

After the afternoon training session, the surprised voice of coach Ronald Koeman came from the office of the first team head coach.

At this time, the core executives of Ajax's athletic department gathered in the office.

Headed by technical director Louis van Gaal, two academy assistants Luther Carroll and Patrick Radru, and chief scout Tony Browns Slots, all gathered at Ronald Kerr. Mann's office.

"You promised Trabelsi that as long as the contract is renewed, he will leave the team after half a year?"

Van Gaal nodded affirmatively, "Yes, this clause will also be written into the contract extension."

"I don't understand." Ronald Koeman shook his head.

"No, you understand, you just don't want to admit it," Van Gaal said with certainty.

Everyone was a little silent.

"The situation in European football is no longer the same as it was in the past, and Ajax is not the Ajax of the year, but many of us are still immersed in the glory and glory of the past, and it is difficult to extricate ourselves. For this, we do How many bad decisions have been made? How much have we lost that shouldn't have been lost?"

Everyone was immediately speechless.

Why not?

"Not only Trabelsi, Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Escuder...any player at the club, as long as he wants to leave, with the right offer, we can let him go."

Van Gaal spoke very firmly, but his remarks brought a huge shock to everyone present.

This means that Ajax will undergo a huge change from top to bottom, and even the management system of the entire club will have to make changes, which will affect everyone at the current club.

From now on, Ajax will completely embark on the business model of training players for the four major leagues. In this club, there will be no such thing as not for sale, no matter who it is.

Ronald Koeman was surprised and somewhat unacceptable, "Luis, if you do this, where will the team's cohesion come from? How can the team ensure its competitiveness in the league and the Champions League?"

"It's very simple, sell one and bring in one. There are young players with great potential and talent everywhere in South America, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Africa, and even Asia. What we at Ajax do best is not to train young players. ?"

"We buy at a low price, cultivate at a high price, and then sell at a high price to earn the middle price difference, and players naturally hope to use the platform of Ajax to achieve self-improvement, and use the team as a pedal to land in the four major leagues, just Like Escud, so we don't need to worry about the competitiveness of the team at all."

Van Gaal's remarks were a huge shock to Ajax's past business philosophy, which shocked everyone present.

In the past, Ajax also sold people, but many times they sold people when they were forced to.

Just like Trabelsi, if it is a shrewd team, it should have been quick to take action in the summer, grab a large transfer fee from the giant teams in the four major leagues, and then introduce a young player worthy of training, This will avoid the dilemma the team is currently facing.

But Ajax didn’t do this, instead, they wanted to keep Trabelsi. The result was good. Not long after the season started, Trabelsi was clamoring to leave the team. With only the second half of the contract left, The team is also very disadvantaged.

It is even conceivable that if there is no automatic two-year extension clause left in the contract that year, Ajax will suffer a big loss in the transfer of Trabelsi, or at a very low price. Selling a man during the winter break, or delaying him on a free transfer until the summer, either way, Ajax will suffer huge losses.

Trabelsi was like that, as were Van der Vaart, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sneijder.

Only by changing the club's business model can Ajax prevent this from happening again and again.

But it has to be said that Van Gaal's set of ideas is too radical.

"I believe that Trabelsi should give an answer within the next few days, and then I will talk to Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic, hoping to stabilize as soon as possible before the last trip to Bruges. Team, bring the players back together."

First calm inside and then outside, as a head coach, Van Gaal deeply believes in this set of management methods.

"I have made a military order with Michael. If I fail to qualify for the Champions League group stage this season, I will take the blame and resign."

Everyone present was shocked when they heard it, because they all knew what it meant.

There is no doubt that Van Gaal is a world famous coach, but since he led Ajax to glory in the 1990s, he has not achieved any success again. He entered Barcelona twice without success, and coached the Netherlands. The national team can't even enter the World Cup, which has made Van Gaal controversial for a long time.

Anyone who is familiar with European football knows that it is inappropriate to blame Van Gaal completely, whether it is Barcelona or the Netherlands, but fans and media can ignore this, they just hype and criticize.

If Van Gaal leaves the position of technical director of Ajax now, his coaching career will be bleak, and he may even slip from the position of Europe's first-line coach. It will be difficult to have a giant in the future The team invited him.

It can be said that Van Gaal's move is simply betting his career.

Not to mention other people, even Ronald Koeman, who has always been very wrong to Van Gaal, is a little moved at this moment.

This is not just a matter of professional ethics, but more importantly, Van Gaal's feelings for Ajax.

And Koeman also knows that Van Gaal took the initiative to take the blame, and his head coach will be preserved.

Thinking of this, he was somewhat uncomfortable.

But at this moment, Van Gaal suddenly turned his head to look at Ronald Koeman.

"Ronald, this game against Club Brugge, I hope you can promise me one thing."

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In the next two days, Ajax continued to prepare calmly for the fourteenth round of the Eredivisie.

Ronald Koeman announced the team's 18-man roster one day in advance, and Fermaelen was in it, but Yang Yang, who had just been recruited from the second team, failed to make it into the roster, which made Yang Yang somewhat disappointed.

On the day of the game, Ronald Koeman did not put Fermaelen in the starting lineup, but still put Heitinga and Escud in his partner, John O'Brien on the right, and Max on the left. Weir was rotated and replaced by Czech defender Zdenek Grigera.

Although the 23-year-old Czech international is a right-footed player who has just joined the team this summer, he has been under pressure from Trabelsi before, and Grigola has a role of a panacea and is capable of playing in the middle and in the middle. On the left side, the position is always swaying, but on the contrary, the right side that he is best at is rarely able to play.

The changes in the back line also affected the stability on the pitch. In just 15 minutes, the home team Roda JC sent a subtle assist from striker Kone to help the team lead 1-0.

After that, Ajax couldn’t attack for a long time, and the front trident composed of Scola, Sonk and Sawyer Tales was always difficult to break the defense line of Roda JC, and Gregla was injured in the 43rd minute. , Koeman had to use De Jong as a substitute.

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, after Koeman's midfield adjustment, Ajax launched a round of rushing attacks. Van der Vaart assisted Scola to score in the 49th minute with his personal ability, while Sawyer scored. Tars also overtook the score in the 62nd minute, and Ajax finally reversed Roda JC with a thrilling 2-1 score.

A thrilling battle allowed Ajax to retain their position as the league leader, four points ahead of second-placed PSV Eindhoven and as many as ten points ahead of third-placed Feyenoord, in the league title race. have a favorable advantage.

But in the Eredivisie league's scoring list, Kežman topped the list with 15 goals in 14 rounds, while Ajax's top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored only eight goals, tied for scorers Second place on the list.

The outside media and fans did not pay much attention to Ajax's narrow victory over Roda JC. Everyone's attention fell on the final round of the Champions League group stage, the crucial game away to Bruges, Belgium.

This game will determine whether Ajax can advance to the Champions League knockout rounds, and it will also determine the departure and retention of Ajax technical director Van Gaal, but the latter is not well known.

The good news is that the day after Roda JC, Ajax officially announced that they had completed the contract renewal with the team's main right-back Trabelsi. year.

This is undoubtedly a relief for Trabelsi, who has been trapped in the transfer quagmire in the past few months. At the signing ceremony, when facing the media reporters, he expressed emotionlessly that his injury It has basically recovered, and I hope to be able to return to the game as soon as possible.

And head coach Ronald Koeman also said to the outside world that Trabelsi's physical condition is recovering well, and the team doctor has given him the green light to play. He will appear in the midweek game against Bruges, Belgium. Among them, Koeman also said that Trabelsi's return will improve the team's ability to fight on the road.

At a critical moment, with the return of the general, the morale of Ajax has been boosted.

Especially in the past period of time, technical director Van Gaal has successively interviewed team generals such as Van der Vaart and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Leave everything behind, beat Brugge away first, and then talk about other things.

Van Gaal also promised on behalf of the club that until next summer, as long as the opposing team is willing to offer a suitable price, Ajax will seriously consider the transfer of players, no matter who it is.

This statement also boosted the morale of the players, and everyone began to realize that they needed to work harder to win a brighter future for themselves.

The internal contradictions of the team have been eased, everyone has reached an agreement, and the muzzle is shared. The haze that was originally suppressed over De Tokmost gradually faded away, and everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But just the day before going to Belgium, Ronald Koeman announced the team's 18-man squad for the away game as usual.

As a result, what surprised everyone was that Yang Yang, who had just been recruited from the second team for less than a week, was on the list.

The storm is coming soon, let the tickets in your hands smash harder! ! ! ! !