The Ajax Herald
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Vintage Davy Klaassen — 7.94
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match26 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Ajax right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Ajax
Viktor Tsygankov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The step up is real for Roméo Garnier
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market28 Dec 2026
Marcos Leonardo has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ajax can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Match26 Dec 2026
Ajax find a way past AZ
AZ made Ajax work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Emre Ünüvar’s exile
12 goals in 17 games at Sparta Rotterdam — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Ajax updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Match28 Dec 2026
Ajax at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 2, 39 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Ajax training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toluwalase Arokodare is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The dugout Viktor Tsygankov gets picked when it counts
- The dugout A satisfied Kenneth Malen
- Loan watch 9 clean sheets on loan for Mark Engel