Clrnc wrote:
Lost an entire team even the goalie, and still manage to get all his new players play like this. With almost no budget compared to the other top clubs too. Ten Haag is something else
I remember reading van der Sar saying that not long after Ten Haag took over at Ajax they had to have a conversation with him to remind him of the Ajax way of playing football.
I think the thing to take from seeing them knock the ball about like that with players that are clearly not world beaters, is the importance of having a clear style of play running right through the club. Most of those players would probably have come through their system, and the ones that haven't would have been signed because they fit into that system.
So, I actually think Ten Haag could well go somewhere else and fail, or, at least, lauding him when Ajax play how Ajax play, and have always played, could work out badly. They are a shining example of what you can do as a club when you have a strong identity and footballing ideology.
More a win for Anzac and has insistence on a "fit for purpose" squad than necessarily Ten Haag, in my opinion.
