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“Blow after blow after blow”, sighed the Ajax supporters’ association on its website, after Sunday’s “painful” 5-2 defeat to rivals PSV Eindhoven condemned the four-time European Champions to a historic bottom place in the Dutch top flight.
“As a snapshot in time, it’s so unique we’ll still be talking about it in 30 years. If Andere Tijden Sport still exists in 2053, they’ll devote an episode to it.”Many pundits lay the blame on several seasons of bad transfer dealings. Ajax has traditionally sold off homegrown talent for big profits but the recent turnover has been especially high and the replacements have misfired.
None of the starting XI from Ajax’s recent highlight — a 2019 Champions League semi-final — are still at the club. Powerful technical director Sven Mislintat, who was behind much of Ajax’s recent transfer activity, was also sacked in September. He is under investigation over a potential conflict of interest And fans’ frustration has been boiling over, with Ajax hooligans trashing their own stadium and causing the postponement of the Dutch “Klassieker” with Feyenoord by hurling objects onto the pitch.
And optimists point to the fact that Ajax have two games in hand over second-bottom club Utrecht and have already played most of the big guns, notably Feyenoord and PSV.
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