Roméo Garnier

Striker - Ajax
1 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Roméo Garnier

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The Ajax Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Match

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 watch

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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

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The Ajax Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

A European night to remember for Ajax

0‑0 against KAA Gent, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

The run is over for Ajax

16 matches without defeat, and then Fortuna Sittard. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

The dugout

Roméo Garnier: 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Ajax

Théo Hernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marc-André ter Stegen

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marc-André ter Stegen, and the manager let it.

Match

Ajax come up short against Fortuna Sittard

Fortuna Sittard left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Ajax may not be able to give Lucas Rosa what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Rosa wants continental football; whether Ajax can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Ajax

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Théo Hernández

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Ajax told Théo Hernández something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief