Kenneth Perez finds De Telegraaf’s criticism of Ajax surprisingly mild. Trainer Erik ten Hag was kicked off last season by Valentijn Driessen and co., But that seems to be better than expected this season.
Ajax is in a crisis, but De Telegraaf sees no reason to break the Amsterdam club. Perez noticed that too. “What I wonder: last year you were super critical of Erik ten Hag and Ajax when the crescendo was running. Now it is going badly, dramatically, but you are feline. It is not the attacks on Ten Hag when it went well”, says Perez at Voetbalpraat on FOX Sports.
Driessen responds. “That is not so bad. Of course you do not read the newspaper. When things went well, we really were not as critical as everyone thinks. Until February it was the same scenario as now. Then they did better in Europe because they continued in the Champions League. Now they are doing exactly the same as last year and we turned when they performed well in Europe and got PSV in sight. “
“Nowadays they are still at the top, but in Europe things went wrong for certain reasons. You don’t see any progress now, then you did. Then you saw something grow, even though Heerenveen, Feyenoord and Heracles were not doing well. Now you see little improvement. “
Driessen wonders if the players of Ajax are still motivated. “There is a completely different situation now, because there are players from Ajax who know that they will leave at the end of the season. I wonder if the hunger is still there. I have now found that, plus the purchasing policy “
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