John Heitinga is done with all the ambiguity within Ajax. The trainer of the team from Amsterdam does not know what his own future looks like, how things stand on a technical level and cannot answer questions about this from the group of players. Heitinga is particularly in the dark about his own fate. “There will come a point when I will take control myself,” he says at an online press conference.
“You feel the unrest”, is the first thing Heitinga says. For that reason, he actually says that he did not want to be passed on at all when Alfred Schreuder came under fire. “I then listened to the technical story and decided to help my club. Where you prefer to choose the path of gradualism and first want to assist, you suddenly find yourself in front of the group the next day,” says Heitinga.
There, the choice lord gained the confidence of the club management at least until the end of this season. However, he demands more clarity from above. “I now look at it from day to day. I am honest about that, while I am a trainer who tries to look at the whole picture and the longer term. If you look at that, you know that on June 28 the preparation for the You are now playing the semi-finals of the cup tournament and you will have seven more Eredivisie matches, but you will have to look at the composition of the new season again,” said Heitinga.
He asks his club aloud for answers. “Who will be the new technical director? And will I stay put or will there be a new head coach? I have an agreement with the club that I will be a trainer at least until the end of the season. But I have also indicated internally: you can contact me only really judge and condemn when I can put together my group and staff myself. Earlier this season I was still in the stands as a boy of the club. Ultimately, the club will have to make a decision. And clarity is the most important thing. Make a choice. It can turn out right or wrong, but make a choice.”
“There will come a point when I will take control myself,” Heitinga warns finally. “Gerry (Hamstra, ed.) has just left. I expect that there will be more clarity soon. If I make a decision, I will first discuss it internally. I would like to remain head coach of Ajax, but you also look at the risk. What will it look like? What are the lists, national and international? Who will be in charge of this? It is a fact that things are turbulent. This is the situation we are in. My attention is fully focused on the players. happens above me, I don’t have much influence on that, and I assume that they make the right decisions there,” said the trainer.