Kjetil Knutsen handed in his calling card in the Johan Cruijff ArenA on Thursday evening, notes Kenneth Perez. The ESPN analyst is extremely impressed by the Norwegian trainer.
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“This must be a great trainer, this must be a great trainer,” Perez stammers Study Europe, after Ajax escaped a defeat against FK Bodø/Glimt (2-2). “This winter he lost two players who scored 45 goals (Faris Moumbagna and Amahl Pellegrino, ed.), but this trainer has put in place a structure in which it hardly matters who plays.”
The Dane sees that Bodø/Glimt, who played the first match of 2024 against Ajax, ‘just marches on’ under the leadership of Knutsen. “If you can let this team with Bjørkan (failed at Feyenoord, ed.) and Evjen (failed at AZ, ed.) march like this, without having played a serious match in the last two months… Congratulations. But : Ajax might as well continue next week.”
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Knutsen was in the picture in the summer of 2023 to become Ajax’s new trainer. Then technical director Sven Mislintat spoke with the coach for orientation.
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