gooner6729
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des hardi said:sellout club....... they spend all their time assembling a team then sell them all just when they are getting good.
a club with great history, players and academy. if city weren t here they d go back to being happy selling out to real madrid or some italian club.
nothing here folks.....
Ajax weren't killed by oligarchs or the sheikhs at City or PSG. They were killed by a sequence of events:
1) previously clubs were limited to 1,2 or 3 foreigners. That meant Ajax losing 1 or 2 players to leagues in bigger countries every season. Once the limit went, the numbers of players sold increased.
2) Bosman - this ruling inflated wages, and meant clubs who previously compensated for lack of finance by selling, lost players for nothing.
3) TV deals and globalisation. Small countries like Holland don't generate much broadcasting revenue. New plastic fans in Asia and America don't have the dutch game marketed to them as something they should consume.
Its a massive loss to football that mythical clubs like Benfica and Ajax will never compete again. Ajax especially have contributed more to the romance of this game than any other club.
Not only have they produced more great players than any other club in the history of the game, but they also changed the way it was played with their total football.
Barca are the be all and end all of modern football. Look at the roots of their philosophy and their style. Johan Cruyff. He implemented the Barca style, and he was the one to lay the foundations for La Masia. Van Gaal and Rijkaard continued his work. Barca in many ways is a product of the Ajax culture.
Anyone who is indifferent to the demise of a club like that as a major force is not a true football fan.