The Ajax Herald
Squad3 Apr 2028
Julian Brandt damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match3 Apr 2028
Ajax refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 67 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.
Market3 Apr 2028
Steven Berghuis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ajax they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Julian Brandt 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.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
Ajax to lose Steven Berghuis for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Steven Berghuis has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Lisandro Martínez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Oscar Gloukh stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oscar Gloukh and Ajax agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Oliver Edvardsen runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Apr 2028
Eyes on Paul Reverson again
The phone has started ringing about Paul Reverson again, and this time the name on the line is Stromsgodset. Ajax are listening politely and promising nothing.
In brief
- Market Ajax promote Joel Aké from within
- Market Ajax promote Daley Hateboer from within
- Player ratings One of those days for Kasper Dolberg