Marciano Vink calls it ‘an honor’ that his name is mentioned as the successor of the recently departed Marc Overmars. Ajax’s director of football affairs resigned last Sunday after transgressive behavior towards some female colleagues. Vink saw that his name was mentioned in the rumor circuit at the NOS, but does not see himself as a serious candidate, he told Monday evening at football talk†
“It is always an honor when your name is mentioned in these kinds of cases,” Vink tells the football talk show. “The only point is that Marc Overmars slowly entered that world at Go Ahead Eagles. At that time Ajax was not the Ajax of today. He has Ajax, together with Edwin van der Sar and the commercial director (Menno Geelen, ed. ), built up to what it is now. Would you, as a layman, because that’s how I see myself in that area, get in there? Then you will have to have quite a lot and very quickly a kind of crash course.”
Vink declined to comment on what he would do if he was actually asked for the position. “I’m not going to do that now football talk put on the table. You really have to think about that. The problem is that everyone you list now is less than what was in my eyes. I can’t name a name now, which I think can take over like 1, 2, 3. Every technical director who now steps in will have to deal with a file that is there and that is quite a heavy file.”
The name of Marcel Brands has also been mentioned in recent weeks as the successor to Overmars. However, the Everton director who left in December prefers PSV, where he will succeed Toon Gerbrands as general manager after this season. “He could possibly handle that in terms of experience,” says Vink. “Only PSV acted very quickly, because they also saw what might happen, so they brought him in as general manager.” Brands’ name was also associated with the KNVB, where he had to serve as successor to the departing Nico-Jan Hoogma.