Marco van Basten looks disapprovingly at the state of affairs at Ajax. The former striker saw how the team from Amsterdam lost this weekend when they visited FC Twente (3-1) and predicts a tough and difficult season for Maurice Steijn’s team. “It will be a catastrophe,” said Van Basten Rondo on Ziggo Sports.
“It’s just really painful,” begins the former football player and coach. “What you feared is now becoming reality. It’s just a drama. Bad purchases, no level, a technical director who says: ‘You can judge us in November.’ I don’t know, but I think you chose the wrong club. From day one you have to perform at Ajax.”
Van Basten indicates that ‘a preparation is there to prepare yourself’. “I don’t know what they use them for these days, but normally the preparation is to get the team to play together, to fine-tune things tactically and only then do you start the competition.” Presenter Wytse van der Goot indicates that Ajax only got the team in order late because they first had to sell before they could invest themselves. “Well, that’s already bad,” Van Basten responds. “It was already a gang last year, but the gang has only gotten bigger and badder. It’s going to be a catastrophe, what’s going to happen.”
Dick Advocaat, also a guest at the table, points to PSV. “They didn’t have any money either, did they? But they bought Jerdy Schouten because they had the feeling that Ibrahim Sangaré would leave.” Van Basten: “At Ajax there is simply no policy. You don’t have a general manager. Edwin van der Sar was still there last year, but it was already a mess then. Okay, Jan van Halst is appointed temporarily, but ultimately no one has to be accountable to anything or anyone. Mislintat came in, appointed a trainer and went shopping with his wallet. That is it. It’s all happening and everyone is watching. Unimaginable.”