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I knew Ajax were struggling these days, but I also knew that I didn't know the full story and depth of the mess they're in. The way you describe Sven Mislintat and how he apparently puts himself and his connections first - if I understand it correctly that is - wow, that's just poison for a football club. It's really interesting to get this kind of insight. I do feel there's some kind of change coming, once your story is ready to kick off for real.
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Sounds like a lot of unnecessary drama surrounding the club at the moment. If the team starts winning, a lot of the tension will fade away.
I do like Chuba Akpom, I liked watching him at Hull before I realized he was on loan from Arsenal. But I admit, him signing with Ajax seemed strange to me. I did not think he was that good to move up to a club like Ajax.
Trying to make up 9 points is going to be difficult if results do not start turning around soon.
I was surprised to see Akpom at Ajax, I missed a lot of transfers this summer which is quite ironic as I was often updating a transfer decision thread. He was someone I had picked out from last season dn made a mental note of some plans this year, wasn't until I was messing around on FUT and saw he was an SBC and I see he playing for Ajax.
Can certainly sympathise with you as a fan for the off field drama, had much of that once again at Leeds of the summer. Frustrating football can't just be played on the pitch, but then again us as fans are just as guilty as we've continued to follow and fuel the greed.
Let's hope fortunes change for Ajax irl as well as this career for your and our enjoyment. An uphill battle, but not impossible
- Tough situation being 9 points behind Feyenoord already. And seeing them taking all three against both PSV and Twente, I suppose you can't rely on any help there. Obviously you do have the head to head games against them, but apart from those it does seem like Feyenoord can win most of their remaining games and perhaps built a solid gap to seal a second consecutive title. So Ajax would probably be wise to focus on themselves and not think too much about what happens in Rotterdam.
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- Marseille and Feyenoord, two difficult games to possibly set the tone for the rest of the season. Good luck mate.
Nice to see Bergwijn making things happen. The Europa league will be very interesting. The group is not easy and if this was Ajax of recent years I would expect them to win it.
If you can then beat Feyernoord, that might spark a upbeat in the season.
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- Somehow I missed a few posts, I will get used to this forum I swear 🤣
Frustration is Europe as well and interesting take changing up to the good old fashioned trusted 4-4-2. Feels weird tho Ajax, but needs must in trying times, sometimes have to completely change what stand for to consolidate then get back to what do best when recovered and on the way back up story has been terminated
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Interesting if this "in house" appointment is what Ajax needs to improve. I suppose that's how Guardiola started in Barcelona, but my initial response would probably be that it's a dangerous way to go with many of these appointments failing to make it. Good luck.
Nice bit of manageraial upheaval. You can't beat it, I say.
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Impressive turnaround. Let's see if it continues. Good start for the new head coach, also announcing his intentions to play a 4-3-3 again. The Ajax way.
It's a bit of a crooked formation though, with CDM - LCM - RAM in midfield and RW - ST - LS in attack. Looks a bit funny, I've never altered positions like this (I have provided different instructions to different positions though). But I like the attention to detail, and I think it's quite common that two wingers in one team can have totally different roles, one being more of a striker and the other being more of a midfielder, providing that balance in the team.
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@Danimal5981 wrote:Sincerely, try it: to play a diagonal (First, from left back, via left centre midfielder, to right attacking midfielder (one diagonal), then: hanging right wing, to a target striker, extending to a deep going left attacker (second diagonal). Both in real life as well as in this game, diagonals are very hard to defend, also for an AI. One of the basics during the Dutch FA's course to become a certified football coach: set up a diagonal, mandatory stuff.
I might try this, don't think I knew it was possible to alter the positions in the existing lineups (4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 etc.). But I might give it a shot.
However, I'd actually argue that I already do this, simply by applying different instructions to different players. My LW is instructed to stay up, so he actually plays as a LS, and one of my CM's is instructed to go forward in a "free role", where he often plays as a CAM pushing up behind the striker. I might try your version of it, altering the names of the positions too, seeing if there's any difference...
