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Marked for Caio Henrique

110 Edition

The Ajax Herald

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A day Mohamed Salah will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Ajax

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Youri Baas in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ajax this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Heracles join the queue for Sean Steur

Add another name to the list: Heracles have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sean Steur. The answer from Ajax has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Mohamed Salah

Marked 9.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Caio Henrique gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Ajax share the spoils with Zwolle

A 3‑3 draw with Zwolle leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

The month belongs to Mohamed Salah

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Ajax have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Boardroom

Ajax release $14.4M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Ajax Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Ajax refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 73 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Ajax turn down ADO Den Haag for Anton Gaaei

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Cambuur join the queue for Rayane Bounida

Add another name to the list: Cambuur have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rayane Bounida. The answer from Ajax has not changed — yet.

Squad

Youri Baas in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ajax this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

The Steven Berghuis conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: NEC will make the call about Steven Berghuis this week. Ajax have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Boardroom

Ajax release $10.5M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

Jorthy Mokio gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Ahmetcan Kaplan’s exile

6 goals in 25 games at NEC — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Ajax updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Squad

Caio Henrique has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Caio Henrique keeps the shirt for now, at Ajax's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

30 Edition

The Ajax Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A derby to forget for Ajax

Beaten 2‑3 by PSV in the one fixture where losing is not allowed. The football was bad enough; the week ahead will be worse.

Squad

Mohamed Salah is carrying Ajax

14 goals and a season average of 7.98. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 23 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

Only the photograph left for Anton Gaaei

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anton Gaaei will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ajax the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

At 21, Mika Godts is already the best thing here

An average of 7.36 in a first team he is several years too young for. Ajax have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

Youri Baas in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ajax this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Mika Godts runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mohamed Salah

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Caio Henrique

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

23 Edition

The Ajax Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The season belongs to Mohamed Salah

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Ajax have had the benefit of it.

Boardroom

There is money circling Ajax

Nothing signed, nothing denied, and a lot of people suddenly very careful about their wording. Supporters who have been through one of these know the quiet part lasts months.

Squad

Ricky van Wolfswinkel: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ajax have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Vitesse come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ajax did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Ajax

Youri Baas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Ajax come up short against Zwolle

Zwolle left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Potenza watching Emre Ünüvar

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ajax have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Caio Henrique

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Oliver Edvardsen

Marked 8.68 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

  • Player ratings One of those days for Emre Ünüvar
  • Market The Rayane Bounida conversation is coming
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Ajax dressing room in a hurry