Recent content by Mike1976

Still putting up good numbers, but he's gotten slower, less mobile and he's compensated for it with (much) more diving and complaining to the ref. Don't think either of those would go down well in the PL.

We were a total disaster last season despite spending over €100m, more than double our previous record window. Loads of players are on insane wages and not delivering. Time to clear out and rejuvenate the squad. He played as a striker mainly during CL and big league games except for the year we...

Haha. But in all seriousness the chances of ETH bringing him to Manchester are extremely remote. A move to the Turkish league has been rumoured for some time.

Rumoured that Liverpool is no longer interested because the player's father is demanding excessive sums of money and then upping the demands every time they are met. Ajax seems to be of the same opinion and supposedly no longer interested either.

Gallardo turned down Ajax in IIRC Nov. or Dec. of last year. I don't think they were under the impression that he was ever going to sign for Ajax no matter the timing. There's also currently no CEO and the supervisory board has had a make-over which doesn't help maintaining balance. But last...

The player has been offered* a three match ban (2 + 1 probational) by the FA. * "given", but pending potential appeal not yet sentenced.

No, stats from smaller leagues shouldn't be taken seriously because otherwise Finnbogason or Vincent Janssen would have been playing for City and not Haaland. It's individual attributes that scouts from the EPL should be looking for in players from the Eredivisie, goals and assists can be down...

The three clubs they've played so far are all relegation bait. Two are newly promoted and the other was the club with the lowest budget last year. He's really good at padding his stats against such opponents. He won't get that much time and space in the EPL. And before Antony's stats are...

PSV wants at least €50m, he's by far their most valuable player in terms of g/a. Letting him leave now and with Madueke out for months will likely mean they won't be battling with Ajax for the title, but instead with Feyenoord for second place. That's a possible €40m in CL qualification money...

Odd, but Lucas Ocampos has more or less announced his transfer to Ajax before either club has.

Memphis has struggled until fairly recently, the only place he has truly looked far best is the NT where he has had zero competition. Bergwijn had Kane and Son keeping him on the bench. Locadia is 29 y/o and playing in Iran. Leaving at this point in the window and to a struggling side like...

They did the same with the Blind and Tadic transfers, both of whom are visibly declining now. Ajax buys prospects that can be sold on for large sums later and players that those prospects can learn from and offer them a more stable team to develop in, provide leadership both on and off the...

Was just watching a talkshow where a journalist said that Ajax still prefers a loan and Ziyech himself keeps insisting on a permanent deal so he (potentially) won't be stuck at Chelsea again next year. Not sure why they wouldn't want to buy if the price is right since buying now is better for...

Ah right thanks. I don't really see the problem then unless the latest reports are wrong and Chelsea is sticking to their initial reported asking price of ~€44m.

I've also seen that figure. Is that before or after tax? Because the salaries of the other players that I mentioned are all before tax.