Articles tagged with "ajax"
Implosion
By Mario | November 6th, 2009Well, if there was a glimmer of hope of Dinamo qualifying from the group stages of Europa League, that glimmer was squashed and extinguished yesterday ...
The Atlantic League: A European Not-Quite-Super-But Still-Quite-Good-League for Celtic, Rangers and Others
By Daryl | October 12th, 2009There were some pretty bold claims made in Glasgow late last week. First, Celtic chief exec Peter Lawwell had this to say: "We're looking for an ...
Cedric Van der Gun Signs!
By Tom | September 15th, 2009Van Der Gun signed a one year contract with the option of a further year after his free transfer from FC Utrecht. He played the ...
Summer of 2009: The Recap
By Thomas | September 1st, 2009[gallery] In this post I'm going to talk about all of the PSG transfers this summer, and give them a letter grade, based on how the ...
Sheva and Nine Other Reputation Ruining Transfers
By Rob | August 29th, 2009So Shevchenko has finally ended his Chelsea nightmare and rejoined Dynamo Kiev. Once the most feared striker in the world, he never really made an ...
Sure it was only a Europa league qualifier, but....
By Luka | August 28th, 2009Kennedy Bakircioglu is an Assyrian-Swede who began his career with Assyriska Sodertalje. According to the infallible Wikipedia, he trialled with Manchester United before ...
PSV 4-3 Ajax: Eredivisie = Goals, Goals, Goals
By Daryl | August 16th, 2009The ever-high scoring Dutch Eredivisie provided another goalfest this weekend, with PSV beating Ajax 4-3 at Philips Stadion. Things couldn't have started much worse for PSV, ...
Weekend Watch: Back In The Saddle.
By chris | August 14th, 2009With the first of the Big Three kicking open the starting gate, we're that much closer to European football at its fullest. The Premiership opens ...
Atlético Draw 3-3 With Ajax, Lose 2-0 To Sunderland (Seriously?)
By Al | July 27th, 2009Thank goodness it's only the preseason. Resino is doing all that he can to play every single player and develop a good system in time ...
Transfer Talk: It's All About The Love.
By chris | July 6th, 2009Keirrison is all but Barcelona's - much to the delight of everyone at former club Palmeiras. But he's being flogged about as loan fodder in ...
Transfer Talk: No Means No.
By chris | June 25th, 2009Chelsea, unaware that no means no, made a silly bid for Alexandre Pato which was firmly rejected (they say "English club", but they're not fooling ...
Transfer Talk: Nobody's Goin' Nowhere.
By chris | June 19th, 2009(Put those things away.) Aly Cissokho, the man with the not-quite-small task of ushering in a new era of a younger Milan, will not be ushering ...
Why AEK Athens And Ilie Iordache Are Better Than Cristiano Ronaldo
By Chris Paraskevas | June 17th, 2009Another pathetic attempt to snare traffic in the AEK blog I know, though I was only seconds ago punished by the football Gods (who clearly ...
Transfer Talk: ...And Talk And Talk And Talk.
By chris | June 5th, 2009Just because a player was once brilliant on the pitch doesn't mean he'll be brilliant off it in the front offices. See: Zinedine Zidane. "Kaka has ...
Poll: The Coaching Selections.
By chris | June 2nd, 2009It's no surprise that coaching changes are typically swift. The selection for the sidelines can impact everything that happens throughout the summer - from the ...
Write for Ajax Offside
By Daryl | May 28th, 2009We're in need of a new blogger here on Ajax Offside. If you're an AFC Ajax fan with opinions to share, then this could be ...
A Call for Rational Thought...
By Gianfranco | May 14th, 2009It is safe to say than in the past few days my frustrations have mounted. It all started with the brash claim of Silvio ...
Coaching Carousel: It's All About Money & Self-Belief
By chris | May 7th, 2009As much as we may criticize making career decisions simply for the sake of money, it is refreshing when someone calls a spade a spade ...
AZ Tempt The Fates And Win A Bittersweet Title.
By chris | April 20th, 2009One title down: AZ, with nine fingers firmly on the trophy since roughly November, expectedly won their second Dutch Eredivisie championship this weekend - becoming ...
UEFA's Elite Football Stadia - Part 1.
By chris | April 11th, 2009After a severe bout of curiosity resulting in far too much time perusing the internets, we finally came upon a conclusive list of Europe's Elite ...
Diving Files: Hatem Ben Arfa & Iker Casillas Ham It Up.
By chris | March 19th, 2009Hatem Ben Arfa is as contemptible as he is talented - and he's quite talented. In the dying moments of last night's draw in Amsterdam ...
Dutch Fans Are Mean. Funny, But Mean.
By chris | February 26th, 2009That's FC Volendam goalkeeper Jeroen Verhoeven. He is, to put it nicely, plump. Quite plump. In fact he might just be the only player in ...
The Odd Tumble of the Eredivisie
By chris | February 19th, 2009It has been a strange, strange year in Dutch football. The clubs currently partaking in the Dutch top flight have won a combined 49 Eredivisie ...
Feyenoord drop 2-0 to Ajax
By Jackson | February 15th, 2009Feyenoord was clearly motivated for a supreme effort in Amsterdam but it wasn't enough as they lost 2-0 to Ajax on two second half goals. ...
Danijel Pranjić leads Heerenveen over Ajax
By Porter | January 31st, 2009The incredible turnaround of Heerenveen continued as they defeated Ajax 1-0 at the ArenA. Ajax manager Marco van Basten frustration with his striking combination since ...
Ajax today!
By Porter | January 30th, 2009The Eredivisie's match of the weekend features Heerenveen visiting Ajax with Trond Sollied gunning to maintain the form that has seen his club win three ...
IFFHS: Barca Best Club of All-Time (Since 1991)
By chris | January 23rd, 2009The gushing over Barca continues, only this one isn't limited to their current world crushing squad, it's for their run of the last 17 years ...
Robbie Wielaert heads to Ajax
By Tucker | January 12th, 2009It was just announced that veteran defender Robbie Wielaert has been transferred to Ajax. Per the Ajax club site, while the terms have yet to ...
Rubin Kazan targets Farhod Tadjiyev and Steven Pienaar
By j | January 4th, 2009Russian champion Rubin Kazan have made an €4.7m offer for English Premier League side Everton's Steven Pienaar as per a variety of news reports. The ...
Joost Volmer Shows Emmanuel Adebayor How To Throw A Proper Elbow
By chris | December 22nd, 2008Big controversy in the weekend's big Prem game. Emmanuel Adebayor, sitting on a yellow, lazily flailed his arm (6:40 above), which graced Alvaro Arebloa, who ...
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