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Abdenasser El Khayati mentions Jordy Zuidam as a possible successor to Marc Overmars at Ajax as director of football affairs. However, the attacking midfielder emphasizes that the current technical director of FC Utrecht in Amsterdam would end up ‘in a completely different pond’. The analysts in the program football talk by ESPN come to the conclusion that it will be very difficult to find a successor for Overmars.

“Yes, it is certainly difficult,” El Khayati says in the talk show. He is asked if he knows a candidate. “I just called Jordy Zuidam. You end up in a completely different pond. Instead of transfers of two, three million euros, you have to make transfers of twenty, thirty million euros all at once. One wrong and everyone looks at you. All eyes are on you. It’s really not easy.” Zuidam has been technically responsible at FC Utrecht since 2017, where he was active as head of scouting in the four years before.

Wesley Sneijder is also mentioned as a possible director of football affairs for Ajax and he himself indicated on Tuesday evening that he is open to this position. “If Ajax likes that: why not? Who am I to say that it is possible or not?”, is how Marciano Vink responds to Sneijder’s statement. “He himself also commented that someone must be involved,” Kees Kwakman adds. “Gerry Hamstra is still walking around there, that was Overmars’ right-hand man in the last period. Sneijder also knows that this is not easy and that there is more to it than that.”

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“Of course there are quite a lot of contracts and agreements with players or brokers, not all of them will be on paper,” emphasizes Vink. “A certain feeling with an agent or player also has to be built up from scratch. There are players in the selection who would like to know something at the end of the season. Extend or like Tagliafico maybe a nice gesture There are so many issues† Kwakman concludes: “Maybe Hamstra knows something about that.”