Ajax - Golden Generation

[wythyred]

I was in Amsterdam at the weekend and watched the Ajax vs VVV match.

The average age of their team was 22 and even though De Jong and De light get all the plaudits - I was seriously impressed with their fullback Kristensen & Ziyech who I know has a lot of fans on here was immense.

However Dolberg who was highly rated in 2017 and I read went of the boil slightly last year was for me the best player on the pitch.

Some of the potential in that team is frightening is their any Ajax fans on here that can shine a light on their potential?

 

[Schneckerl]

This thread would look different if you would have gone to the Ajax game a week ago.

 

[Ish]

Thought this was about van Gaal’s Ajax

 

[Keeps It tidy]

Ajax always tries to sign the best young talent so this is always bound to happen.

 

[Keeps It tidy]

Thought this was about van Gaal’s Ajax

Yeah when I saw the thread title I thought the same.

 

[Ish]

Yeah when I saw the thread title I thought the same.

That truly was a golden generation

 

[#07]

Thought this was about van Gaal’s Ajax

Yeah, me too.

 

[Ish]

Yeah, me too.

I think that’s going to be a common theme

 

[SoCross]

Is this about Van Gaal’s Ajax then?

Sorry couldn’t resist. It’s an interesting side filled with talent. But will be pulled apart soon enough; De Jong’s the start.

 

[Eboue]

I think that’s going to be a common theme

I didnt think that. You're all gullible and foolish.

 

[Ish]

I didnt think that. You're all gullible and foolish.

no eboue, you’re just bobbins!

 

[SteveJ]

I didnt think that. You're all gullible and foolish.

 

[kidbob]

Finidi George was such a good player.

 

[RedTiger]

It was a beautiful squad.

Kluivert
Overmars
Seedorf
Davids
VDS
Finidi
Musampa
Kanu
Blind

The list goes on on.

 

[JPRouve]

Finidi George was such a good player.

So we are just hijacking the thread then? I loved Litmanen as a kid even though I barely knew him.

 

[RedTiger]

So we are just hijacking the thread then? I loved Litmanen as a kid even though I barely knew him.

I was distraught when he joined Liverpool.

 

[PepG]

GK Fred Grim
GK Edwin van der Sar
DF Danny Blind (captain)
DF Winston Bogarde
DF Frank de Boer
DF Michel Kreek
DF Michael Reiziger
DF Sonny Silooy
DF Mendel Witzenhausen
MF Ronald de Boer
MF Edgar Davids[1]
MF Kiki Musampa[2]
MF Tarik Oulida
MF Marc Overmars
MF Martijn Reuser
MF Frank Rijkaard
MF Clarence Seedorf[3]
MF John van den Brom
MF Nordin Wooter[4]
MF Finidi George
FW Jari Litmanen
FW Nwankwo Kanu
FW Patrick Kluivert
FW Peter van Vossen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994–95_AFC_Ajax_season

 

[Member 93275]

They move on when they get too good and consistent for the Eredivisie and Ajax paychecks. It will only be a golden generation in the sense that in a couple of years people can look at players who used to play at Ajax, and say "that would be quite a team if they stayed at Ajax".

 

[Paolo Di Canio]

Ill get stuck into that later, thanks for sharing

 

[KirkDuyt]

Kristensen is shite, Ziyech is a cnut and Dolberg is a fraud. Next year De Ligt, De Jong, Ziyech and Onana wil leave and they'l finish mid-table. Take it Ajaxers!

Also, you should've gone to Ajax: match the week before

 

[Member 93275]

Kristensen is a star, man. Special deal for United, only 40m. I'll deliver him in gift paper myself.

 

[KirkDuyt]

Kristensen is a star, man. Special deal for United, only 40m. I'll deliver him in gift paper myself.

The amount of abuse some of my ajacied friends hurl his way is crazy.

 

[Henrik Larsson]

Litmanen vs PSV is still one of the most unique goals I've ever seen at a high level. A proper functional no look goal, opposed to the pointless showboating shite a guy like Firmino serves up. My personal guess is that it can be traced back to the fact that Jari played a lot of ice hockey as a kid back in Finland. Now that man was a proper genius, and a humble and intelligent person as well. It's such a shame he was made out of glass, although in the end he has still excelled at the highest level and won pretty much everything with Ajax.


Or at 2:35 in this video to see it in slightly better quality



Current batch of Ajax talents isn't even better than the '03 Chivu, Maxwell, Sneijder, Vd Vaart, De Jong Zlatan generation.

 

[Keeps It tidy]

Current batch of Ajax talents isn't even better than the '03 Chivu, Maxwell, Sneijder, Vd Vaart, De Jong Zlatan generation.

Might not be as good as when Ajax had Suarez, Vertonghen, Alderweireld and Eriksen at the club at the same time.

 

[Henrik Larsson]

Might not be as good as when Ajax had Suarez, Vertonghen, Alderweireld and Eriksen at the club at the same time.

Yep, that was a good one as well. Current generation is very enjoyable too though and it'll be very interesting to see how their careers progress (might've sounded a bit negative, which isn't really what I meant).

 

[Keeps It tidy]

Yep, that was a good one as well. Current generation is very enjoyable too though and it'll be very interesting to see how their careers progress (might've sounded a bit negative, which isn't really what I meant).

And since Ajax's academy is producing gems again and the fact that Ajax might have the best youth scouting network around will tend to have a chance to have generations like this.

 

[Loublaze]

Van Gaal's Ajax is the true golden generation. These kids have to win something bigger than the Dutch league

 

[Eila]

They haven't won the league since 2014, right? 2015-16 PSV, 17 Feyenoord (lol), 18 PSV again.

 

[Keeps It tidy]

They haven't won the league since 2014, right? 2015-16 PSV, 17 Feyenoord (lol), 18 PSV again.

And PSV will probably win it again this season.

 

[Sir Scott McToMinay]

One or two players aside, they’re nothing special and are second in the league, potential or not.
Ajax had far more talented squads since Van Gaal’s era.

 

[wythyred]

Remember when everybody humoured me for making this thread

Hate to say I told you so..

 

[Lay]

And they’re top of the league?

 

[NoLogo]

Thought this was about van Gaal’s Ajax

They certainly were a true golden generation. Absolutely amazing set of players in the team in the mid 90s. Kluivert, Litmanen, Overmas, the de Boer brothers just to name a few. Absolutely amazing team of youngsters.

Edit: feck totally forgot they even had Seedorf and Rijkaard in that squad and most of them came through their own youth system. Crazy squad.

 

[Judge Red]

They’ll play against Liverpool in the semis and be completely shit. You know it and I know it.

 

[Trizy]

Cracking attacking football. Great team.

Only thing I can found wrong with them is their selflessness. You need to be confident, hungry and greedy in 1v1 situations some times.

 

[Tommy]

They’ll play against Liverpool in the semis and be completely shit. You know it and I know it.

That'd be some feat considering we're on different sides of the draw.

 

[Judge Red]

That'd be some feat considering we're on different sides of the draw.

It’s a fair point in retrospect.

 

[LJJT]

This being the team we destroyed in the uefa final a couple of years ago. They aren’t particularly good just this years champs league surprise team

 

[Ish]

They certainly were a true golden generation. Absolutely amazing set of players in the team in the mid 90s. Kluivert, Litmanen, Overmas, the de Boer brothers just to name a few. Absolutely amazing team of youngsters.

Edit: feck totally forgot they even had Seedorf and Rijkaard in that squad and most of them came through their own youth system. Crazy squad.

Literally won’t see anything like that again. Closest was probably Barca with Valdez, Pique, Iniesta, Xavi, Busquets, Pedro & Messi? Not sure if they all came through the academy though and not sure where Puyol came from either.

 

[Velvet Revolver]

This being the team we destroyed in the uefa final a couple of years ago. They aren’t particularly good just this years champs league surprise team

Not even close. This team is miles ahead of what the team was in EL final!