Football podcast | ‘No one within Ajax is now going to reject a proposal from Louis van Gaal’ | Dutch football

“It is an acquaintance of Van Gaal, so the name is not surprising. Although I had not thought of him as director of football at Ajax,” Mossou responds to Marijn Beuker and Ajax. Beuker himself has indicated in the past that a director of football affairs is busy with everything except completing a transfer. “Being able to do transfers as a TD is such a specific part of the job. That is almost impossible to learn and replace. We saw that at Overmars. This is an important part at Ajax, because the club has an international network. You can’t solve that with Beuker.”

At Orange Bart Verbruggen seems to be getting his chance. The Brighton goalkeeper appears to be on target against France. The Dutchman has been playing in England since this summer and ended up in a special system. “Verbruggen plays every two games at Brighton. They have two good goalkeepers there and this is De Zerbi’s solution for the time being. He sees the goalkeepers as field players and wants everyone to play equally.”

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