General Football Discussion

[SPL]

Sad for Steks as he did well as Onana's replacement . Gorter should get games against the lesser clubs but Onana may yet play from Nov. I don't want to see Onana wear an Ajax shirt again but we may to see him at least until end of December.

[Orange14]

The Swiss Ramble has a Twitter thread on Ajax finances: https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/ ... 1757142029

[kezme44]

mino raiola might have had one pizza slice too many. he was rushed into emergency surgery this morning in milan. despite hating his guts, I wish him a good recovery.

[Ayman]

mino raiola might have had one pizza slice too many. he was rushed into emergency surgery this morning in milan. despite hating his guts, I wish him a good recovery.

Turns out it is just standard procedure according to his twitter account. No emergency. Better luck next time. If he does kick the bucket, I don't want to see anyone mourning his demise!

[Ayman]

Mino Raiola is in ICU, in a critical condition, its not the first time he was admitted to hospital this month alone. Let's wish him a speedy journey to the same place Charles Manson is at. After all, Mino did put Ajax fans under a lot of stress in the summers and winters, he is an exploiter and a destroyer of football players.

[Ayman]

Marc Overmars has left Ajax with immediate effect, due to inappropriate messages towards female members of staff.

What a let down! Such a disgrace

[kezme44]

just saw this in the news. how did he think he can away with that in this environment? feel bad for all the recipients of those messages and shame on him. how stupid to destroy your career over this

[SPL]

Big shock but his reputation is now in tatters. Feel for the women who were subjected to his texts

[SPL]

On the Dutch part of this site they a have a poll of candidates to succeed. Hamstra is Overmars assistant and talk of V D Sar taking over temporary backed by Hamstra. Would expect this for the rest of the season.

Still have to talk with Raiola about Mazraoui and Gravenberch and get those kids like Prince Aning from U 18 under contract.

[Amol]

Terrible news about Overmars and what he's subjecting women to. My thoughts go out to all of the ones who suffered.

Don't know where Ajax goes from here. Honestly like all of you, I'm in some shock and still taking time to process this.

[kezme44]

sounds like he was sending dick pics around to female employees. ziggo now saying they are watching the situation implying they might pull out of sponsorship. so this will obviously have all kinds of implications

[Orange14]

The big question is whether van der Sar knew of this in advance.

[Tom_]

It’s disgusting. There’s no excuse for it and it’s even worse if he was their boss.

Yes, if it turns out Ajax knew and didn’t act straight away, it might bring the whole board down (rightly). AS are suggesting there were rumours about him.

[Ayman]

According to reports, 1 player was involved as well, to a lesser degree. As more things come to the surface, this could be bad.

[Amol]

It's absolutely terrible. I hope Van Der Sar wasn't involved and that he didn't know until very recently.

The only thing which still is unknown is - how long did this last? If he was sending these texts to 11 different women, then this might have been going on for a while.

[SPL]

Problems at Ajax now even worse,a girl has accused Jong Ajax Mf Donny Warmerdam of rape. All the main sponsors are holding fire so we could lose some of them. Press clearly hounding Van der Sar and believe he knew of Overmars issues a lot earlier.

[Amol]

Problems at Ajax now even worse,a girl has accused Jong Ajax Mf Donny Warmerdam of rape. All the main sponsors are holding fire so we could lose some of them. Press clearly hounding Van der Sar and believe he knew of Overmars issues a lot earlier.

I truly hope Van Der Sar was not involved in any way.

Apparently some women had escalated to their superiors who had said that they were going to talk to VDS. We shall find out over the next few days.

[Amol]

Rumours of Seedorf being in the running to take over from Overmars. Have absolutely no idea if he has skills or any idea of how to do this job.

[Cruijff]

and we are still owed around 20 million from neres, traore, and promes transfers. we shall see if we see that money and when

Did Chelsea already pay the full sum for Ziyech?
Apparently Chelsea are in debt 2 billion British pounds. They owe it to their owner Abramovic who did throw with all the $$$$$$$. But apparently did not take the risks with his own $$$$$$.

Abramovic still supports putin, he left United Kingdom with a private jet, other people will lead Chelsea upcoming weeks. But Abramovic is still the owner.

[Orange14]

Abramovic still supports putin, he left United Kingdom with a private jet, other people will lead Chelsea upcoming weeks. But Abramovic is still the owner.

I think the plane was in Monte Carlo. Abramovich was not in England at the time of the invasion. He was concerned about his plane being seized. He also has two huge yachts, one is harbored in Barcelona and the other also on the Mediterranean coast (I cannot remember which port). There is talk about revoking the visas of all the Russian kleptocrats living in England. Here is the article that was in the Washington Post this morning on Abramovich: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... sanctions/

[SPL]

Probably will get Ziyech's money from Chelsea but the 20m from Promes and Neres and Traore we wont see.4m owed by Moscow and 15 m by Donetsk.

[Orange14]

Mino Raiola has passed away today. There were reports in mid-week that he died but they were erroneous. His family did confirm today's news. I don't know what this means for his agency and all the players he represented.

[kezme44]

Liverpool, Napoli and Rangers it is in group stage of the CL. I don’t rate Napoli high anymore so it’s possible to come out of this group

[SPL]

Liverpool is tough but they have started the season poorly .2nd place wont be easy

[Amol]

Liverpool looked pretty poor the other day against ManU. This group should be doable IMO.

Maybe this helps us convince Antony of staying and getting through this group, going to the WC and then coming back to play in the knockout rounds.