Wim Jonk is in Good morning Eredivisie positive about Dick Schreuder’s work at PEC Zwolle, despite the 3-0 defeat against Ajax on Saturday evening. The FC Volendam coach is then asked whether his brother Alfred Schreuder would be a suitable successor to Erik ten Hag at Ajax. Jonk himself does not expect the leader in the Eredivisie to knock on his door for the trainer position in the Johan Cruijff ArenA that will be released after this season.
Jonk thinks that Alfred Schreuder is certainly in the picture at Ajax, as the current trainer of Club Brugge worked for several years as an assistant coach in Amsterdam. However, the Volendam coach cannot give a real opinion about his qualities. “I don’t know him well enough, so I can’t judge that,” Jonk emphasizes ESPN† “But if you go by what you hear from the boys, how they have worked with him. Then they thought it was an excellent trainer. So I think that fits Ajax perfectly.” Presenter Milan van Dongen then wants to know whether it is ‘one hundred percent’ excluded that Jonk will succeed Ten Hag at Ajax, despite the fact that his name has already been mentioned in the corridors.
Wim Jonk does not expect Ajax to knock on his door in the short term for the succession of Erik ten Hag.
“Yes, I don’t expect that they will come to me”, Jonk says firmly. Van Dongen nevertheless wants to know what the trainer of the PhD student from Volendam would do if the leadership of Ajax ended up with him. “That is not the case at all now. That is a diplomatic answer, Hans”, Jonk says with a joke to Hans Kraay junior, who immediately responds: “No, that is not a diplomatic answer at all. few words of: ‘if they call, I’ll pick up’.” Jonk expects that he will enter the Eredivisie with Volendam, although that has not yet been finalized.
“Is your contract in place?” Kraay explains to Jonk. “No, the contract has not yet been completed, no,” said the newly promoted coach. “We are just talking and said: ‘Let’s first make sure that this exciting phase in the competition is over’. But I do expect it to be okay and I assume that I will be the trainer of Volendam next season. We have a number of issues that we have to solve together, that will undoubtedly work,” concludes Jonk.
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