This summer Ajax lost Hakim Ziyech, Donny van de Beek and Joël Veltman. On the other hand Antony and Mohammed Kudus arrived, but Willem Vissers asks himself in Soccer talk from FOX Sports wondering if the people of Amsterdam did the right thing. Kenneth Perez is also of the opinion that Fredrik Midtsjö from AZ is an absolute reinforcement for Ajax.

“If you can expect players like Antony and Kudus to make a difference in big games… I dare to doubt that”, starts Vissers, journalist from de Volkskrantwhen Ajax comes up. “It took a while at Neres, too. The carrying players have almost all left. The people who formed the soul of Ajax in the past years – Ziyech, Van de Beek, De Ligt, De Jong, Schöne, Veltman – are all gone”.

“If I were Ajax, I’d say to AZ, ‘We want Stengs. And I would have said to PSV: ‘We want Malen’. I just say Stengs”, Vissers continues. “You can’t just say something. Antony plays in the same position”, Perez responds to his story. Vissers argues that the point is that ‘in the Netherlands what Bayern Munich is doing does not happen’, thus pointing to the fact that der Rekordmeister in recent years regularly took players away from competitors in the Bundesliga.

“I’d say Midstjö might be a reinforcement,” Perez believes. He finds no support from the also present Valentine Driessen. “Midstjö? A reinforcement? For Ajax? Of course not”, asks the journalist of The Telegraph laughing at himself. “Oh, you don’t think so? I’m sure he’d be a good reinforcement for Ajax, Count Perez.” The 27-year-old Midstjö has been employed by AZ since 2017, which took him over from the Norwegian Rosenborg BK for over two million euros three years ago.