"What did you say?"

After the afternoon training session, there was a startled voice from manager Ronald Koeman in the first-team manager's office.

At this time, the office gathered the core executives of the Ajax Athletic department.

Led by technical director Louis van Gaal, two academy assistants Luther Carroll and Patrick Laderu, and chief scout Tony Browns Slotz, all gathered in Ronald Koeman's office.

"You promised Trabelsi that as long as the contract is renewed, you will let him leave the team in half a year?"

Van Gaal nodded affirmatively, "That's right, this clause will also be included in the contract extension." ”

"I don't understand." Ronald Coman shook his head.

"No, you know, it's just that you don't want to admit it." Van Gaal is absolutely sure.

Everyone was a little silent.

"The situation in European football is not as good as it was then, and Ajax is not the Ajax of the past, but many of us are still immersed in the glory and glory of the past, and we can't extricate ourselves, how many wrong decisions have we made for this? How much profit have we lost that we shouldn't have lost? ”

Everyone was speechless.

Isn't that?

"It's not just Trabelsi, Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Escude...... Any player at the club, if he wants to leave, we can let him go if he gets the right offer. ”

Van Gaal was adamant, but his words sent a huge shock to everyone present.

This means that Ajax will go through a huge change from top to bottom, and even the management system of the entire club will also have to change, which will affect everyone in the club now.

From now on, Ajax will be completely on the business model of developing players for the big four leagues, and there will be no such thing as a non-sale in this club, no matter who it is.

Ronald Koeman was surprised and a little unacceptable, "Luiz, if you do this, where will the cohesion of the team come from?" How can teams ensure their competitiveness in the league and in the Champions League? ”

"It's very simple, sell one, bring in one, South America, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Africa, and even Asia, there are young players with great potential and talent everywhere, isn't what we at Ajax are best at developing young players?"

"We buy at a low price, and after training, we sell at a high price to earn the difference in the middle, and the players naturally hope to use the platform of Ajax to improve themselves, and use the team as a pedal to land in the big four leagues, just like Escude, so we don't need to worry about the competitiveness of the team at all."

Van Gaal's remarks were a huge shock to Ajax's past business philosophy, and shocked everyone present.

In the past, Ajax also sold people, but many times they only sold people when they had to do so.

Like Trabelsi, if it were a shrewd team, he should have made a quick move in the summer, grabbed a large transfer fee from the big four leagues, and brought in a young player worthy of development, so as to avoid the dilemma that the current team is facing.

But Ajax didn't do this, but was bent on keeping Trabelsi, and the result was good, not long after the start of the season, Trabelsi was clamoring to leave, and the team was also very unfavorable when there was only half a year left on the contract.

It is even conceivable that without the two-year automatic two-year renewal clause left over from the signing of the contract, Ajax would have suffered a big loss in Trabelsi's transfer, either by selling him at a very low price during the winter break or by delaying his free transfer until the summer, either way, Ajax would have suffered a huge loss.

This is true for Trabelsi, as are the likes of Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic and Sneijder.

Only by changing the way the club does it happen will Ajax be able to prevent this from happening again.

But it has to be said that Van Gaal's set of ideas is too radical.

'I'm sure Trabelsi should give an answer in the next few days, and then I'll talk to Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic to hopefully stabilize the squad and regroup the players before the final game against Club Brugge.'

As a manager, Van Gaal is deeply aware of this management approach.

"I've made a military order with Michael that if I don't qualify for the Champions League group stage this season, I'll take the blame and resign."

Everyone present was shocked because they knew exactly what it meant.

There is no doubt that Van Gaal is a world famous coach, but since he led Ajax to glory in the 90s of the last century, he has not achieved any good results, two times to Barcelona in vain, and coaching the Dutch national team can not even enter the World Cup, which has long made Van Gaal controversial.

Those who are familiar with European football know that whether it is Barcelona or the Netherlands, it is not right to blame Louis van Gaal entirely, but the fans and the media don't care about that, they just hype and criticize.

If Van Gaal leaves the position of technical director of Ajax now, his coaching career may be bleak, and he may even slip from the position of a first-class coach in Europe, and it will be difficult for any big team to invite him in the future.

It can be said that Van Gaal's move is simply betting on his career.

Not to mention others, even Ronald Koeman, who has always been very bad for Van Gaal, can't help but be a little moved at this moment.

It's not just a matter of work ethic, it's more about Louis van Gaal's affection for Ajax.

And Koeman also knows that Van Gaal took the initiative to carry this black cauldron, and he, as a manager, will be saved.

Thinking of this, he was somewhat uncomfortable.

But at this moment, Van Gaal suddenly turned his head to look at Ronald Koeman.

"Ronald, this game against Club Brugge, I want you to promise me one thing."

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Over the next two days, Ajax continued to prepare for the 14th round of the Eredivisie in peace.

Ronald Koeman announced the team's eighteen-man squad a day in advance, and Fermaelen was in the middle of it, but Yang Yang, who had just been drawn from the second team, failed to enter the list, which made Yang Yang somewhat disappointed.

On the day of the game, Ronald Koeman did not put Vermaelen in the starting line-up, but still lined up Heitinga and Escud as a partner, with John O'Brien on the right and Maxwell on the left in rotation, replaced by Czech defender Zdenek Grigra.

Although the 23-year-old Czech international is a right-footed player who joined the team this summer, he has been pressed by Trabelsi before, plus Grigra has a somewhat jack-of-all-trades role, can play in the middle and on the left, and his position is always wavering, but his original best right side can rarely play.

Changes at the back also affected consistency on the pitch, with Roda JC providing a subtle assist from striker Koné to give them a 1-0 lead just 15 minutes into the game.

After that, Ajax was unable to attack for a long time, and the front three of Scola, Sonck and Soyetars struggled to break down the Roda JC defence, and Grigra went off injured in the 43rd minute, forcing Coman to use De Jong as a substitute.

After the rematch in the second half, after Koeman's midfield adjustment, Ajax launched a round of attack, Van der Vaart relied on his personal ability, assisted Scola to score in the 49th minute, and Sojetars also overtook the score in the 62nd minute, and Ajax finally reversed Roda JC with a thrilling score of 2-1.

The thrilling game allowed Ajax to retain their position at the top of the league, four points ahead of second-placed PSV Eindhoven and as many as 10 points ahead of third-placed Feyenoord to secure the league title.

However, in the Eredivisie, Kezman tops the scoring charts with 15 goals from 14 rounds, while Ajax's top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is tied for second place with just eight goals.

The media and fans did not pay much attention to Ajax's narrow win over Roda JC, and all eyes were on the crucial game of the Champions League group stage against Club Brugge in Belgium.

This game will determine whether Ajax can qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League, as well as the departure of Ajax's technical director Louis van Gaal, who is not well known.

The good news is that the day after playing Roda JC, Ajax officially announced that they had completed the contract extension with the team's main right full-back Trabelsi, and the two sides decided to fulfill the previous contract and renew it for two years.

This is undoubtedly a relief for Trabelsi, who has been mired in the transfer quagmire for the past few months, and he said emotionally at the signing ceremony that he has basically recovered from his injury and hopes to return to the game as soon as possible.

Coach Ronald Koeman also said that Trabelsi is recovering well and the team doctor has given him the green light to play, and he will appear in the midweek game against Club Brugge in Belgium, while Coman also said that Trabelsi's return will improve the team's ability to play on the road.

At the critical moment, the return of the general, the morale of Ajax was greatly boosted.

Especially in the past period, technical director Louis van Gaal has successively interviewed Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic and other team leaders, and everyone has basically reached a consensus that when the current team is alive and dead, everything must be left behind, and the away game will be beaten away from Club Brugge first, and then talk about other things.

Van Gaal also promised on behalf of the club that Ajax will seriously consider the transfer of players until next summer, as long as the opposing team is willing to offer the right price.

This statement also boosted the morale of the players, and everyone began to realize that they need to work harder to win a brighter future for themselves.

The internal contradictions of the team have been eased, everyone has reached an agreement, the guns are all outside, the haze that was originally suppressed in the sky over Detokmoste has gradually faded, and everyone is secretly relieved.

But just the day before the trip to Belgium, Ronald Koeman announced the team's 18-man squad for the away game, as is customary.

As a result, to everyone's surprise, Yang Yang, who had just been transferred from the second team for less than a week, was on the list.