Alex Kroes quotes in the book Ajax in Crisis from Menno de Galan looks forward to Sven Mislintat. The latter was thrown out on the street by the people of Amsterdam at the end of September and suffered a lot in the book.
Kroes, who will start as general manager of Ajax in March, calls Mislintat ‘a master con artist’ and ‘a charming swindler’. This is evident from a passage in the hands of Fidelity. According to Kroes, the past two transfer windows have been ‘the worst in club history’.
The upcoming general manager of the Amsterdam team is also critical of the fact that no right winger has been brought in by Mislintat. “Four left backs?! I would have given people a slap in the neck if, as general manager, I had known about it. Four left defenders and none right wingers. It’s really terrible,” he continues Fidelity quoted from the book.
Overmars
In the same book it is also written that Marc Overmars asked shortly after his departure from Ajax whether a return to the club was a possibility. That reported Het Parool Wednesday evening based on the same Ajax in Crisis. However, Overmars soon no longer met one of the conditions for a possible return.
A few weeks after his departure from the Johan Cruijff ArenA, Overmars asked then-SB chairman Leen Meijaard whether a return to Ajax was a possibility. Meijaard indicated that he could not rule that out. He did impose several conditions. Number one was that he was going to go under the radar for a while.
The second condition was that Overmars would enter therapy. If he had successfully completed that, he would have to go through the dust again. Overmars hoped that the women working at Ajax would accept that. In the end it didn’t happen. Overmars went to therapy, but only lasted two sessions. Then he quit ‘because that wasn’t for him’.
Barely two months later, Overmars joined Royal Antwerp, where he started working as technical director. De Galan knows that this transfer at Ajax is seen as ‘a slap in the face of the management’ and ‘a kick to the women’.