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Features news coverage of Ajax and its players, including match reports, transfer rumours and general football news.
10 of the best Dutch footballers in recent years
The Netherlands international team go into this summer’s Euro 2012 tournament as one of the favourites and frontrunners, with quality throughout Bert van Marwijk’s side. However, unfortunately the Eredivisie has lost its ability to keep the best homegrown players in the country and Ajax’s UEFA Champions League glory of 1995 seems like an eternity ago….
Man City & Chelsea’s Champions League hopes hang in the balance, as Ajax faces Real Madrid juggernaut
The last round of the Champions League group stages sees a number of mouthwatering and do-or-die ties. If you’re going to be betting on football, you should be very careful where you put your money. For some teams the last 16 and knockout stages await; others will have to make do with the Europa League….
Ajax launch 2011/12 adidas home kit
The leaked image from April was spot on as adidas and Ajax launch their 2011/2012 home kit. The adidas manufactured shirt is white and red with a red collar and red trims on the sleeves. Not a big difference from any of previous shirts, making Ajax’s home shirts one of the most iconic shirts in…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic continuing his incredible domestic dominance
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was Silvio Berlusconi’s marquee signing last summer in a bid to discontinue Milan’s seven year drought without a Scudetto. Not only has the big Swede taken to Italian football like a duck to water as he did with rivals Internazionale prior to a brief spell in Spain, he has forged a formidable understanding…
Ajax 2011/2012 Away Kit – Adidas Launch Video
Adidas show how to do a kit launch with style – here’s a video of the new Ajax away kit, sponsored by Aegon and manufactured by adidas.
Ten Overhead Kicks That Put Rooney’s Derby Shinner To Shame
After Wayne Rooney reminded us all that he used to be a fairly decent professional footballer with his derby day belter against Manchester City last Saturday, the received (Sky Sports-infused) wisdom seems to be that the decidedly off-colour striker’s effort was, without need for second thought, the greatest overhead kick ever scored by anyone, anywhere, ever.
However, that’s not quite the case – as the following, ten-strong video essay will hopefully attest to.
Transfer Deadline Round-Up: Torres And Carroll Smash Records
For the first time in a long time, the transfer deadline day actually lived up to it’s monstrous, gossip-driven hype.
Over the course of 24 hours of prime pantomime, we witnessed both the fourth and the eighth most expensive transfers of all time take place, with Chelsea bagging themselves a new number nine and Liverpool taking 35 million steps to fill the void left thereafter.
The Round-Up: Torres Exit Request Rejected, Man Utd To Go Dutch
Liverpool have confirmed that striker Fernando Torres made an official transfer request yesterday afternoon amidst interest from Chelsea, and that the club have also turned it down – telling the Spaniard that they expect him to honour his long-term contract at Anfield.
The Round-Up: Mourinho Wants Out, Liverpool Face Suarez Stand-Off
A batch of interesting quotes have emanated from the Real Madrid camp, in which coach Jose Mourinho, just days after refusing to commit to Los Blancos past the summer, tells of his hankering for a return to the last bastion of the fair and the just – the English Premier League.
The Round-Up: Chelsea Debunk Atletico €60m ‘Double Bid’ Claims
Reports in the Spanish press yesterday were carrying quotes supposedly attributed to Miguel Angel Gil, in which Atletico Madrid’s majority shareholder claimed that Chelsea had made a €60 million double bid for striker Sergio Aguero and centre-back Diego Godin. Though it seems Senor Gil may have been telling porkies…
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