Ajax can definitely be called the epitome of Dutch football, and his brilliance is also inseparable from the glory of Dutch football as a whole. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

From Ajax, there have been countless world-famous top stars, and many stars have also chosen to join the Eredivisie giants as the starting point for their European conquest.

Cruyff, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Bergkamp, Blind, Kluivert, Bogard, Rechigg, Overmars, Kanu, Davies, Seedorf, De Boer Brothers, Van der Sar, Alihan, Koeman, Stam, Ibrahimovic, Zivo, Maxwell, Babbel, Sneijder, Van der Meyde, Heitinga, Huntelaar, Van der Vaart, De Jong, Vermaelen, Suarez......

These star-studded names either came from the Ajax Academy or from Ajax to superstardom, and together they created Ajax's most glorious history, and their success has also made Ajax known as the world's number one star processing plant, the club has won a total of 29 league titles, 18 Dutch Cups, four Champions Leagues, one UEFA Cup, one European Cup Winners' Cup, three European Super Cups, two Toyota Cups. They are also one of only three clubs to have won all three European trophies (the other two being Barcelona and Juventus).

But when time enters the 21st century, with the development of Jinyuan football and the introduction of the Bosman Act, the mobility of players has begun to accelerate, and the map of the football world seems to have collapsed overnight: in the UEFA rankings, the Eredivisie has fallen all the way from the fifth and sixth places that have been very stable, and is about to drop out of the top ten, and as the most successful club in the Netherlands, Ajax has also fallen from the clouds in just a few years, and they have not only been robbed of the league title by PSV Eindhoven for three consecutive years, And it's also getting further and further away from the UEFA Champions League, the world's top competition.

Last season, they were beaten by Denmark's Copenhagen in the qualifying round, missing out on the Champions League, and also lost tens of millions of euros in participation bonuses and broadcast dividends, which once caused major financial problems for the club - you know, Ajax only earns 60 or 70 million euros a year, and the huge Champions League participation bonuses and broadcast dividends are definitely a piece of fat that is difficult for them to give up.

But it's not their worst time.

Just over a month later, in August 2007, Ajax missed the Champions League qualification play-offs again, this time by Slavia Prague from the Czech Republic over two legs, missing the Champions League for the second year in a row.

In the 2007-08 season, Ajax made a great effort on the one line, but they still finished second behind PSV Eindhoven by three points, with 72 points and three points less than the previous season on two fronts, which is not satisfactory in any way......

However, in the following Champions League qualification play-offs, Ajax lost to the sudden Twente, once again giving up Champions League qualification.

- Note: This year, only the Eredivisie champions will be able to participate directly in the Champions League, and the second to fifth leagues will be selected through the knockout round.

The club's financial situation has deteriorated further due to the inability to play in the Champions League, and they have sold many of the team's core players in just one year, such as midfielder Sneijder who was poached by Real Madrid for a high price, and defender Heitinga, who just won the league's best player, joined Atletico Madrid.

In order to regroup, Ajax invited one of the Dutch three musketeers and former Ballon d'Or winner - Marco van Basten as the head coach, Van Basten led the Dutch national team to the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Championship in successive years before that.

But he found that the former Eredivisie hegemon was now too poor to unravel the pot, and the loss of league dominance and consecutive outbursts from the Champions League not only put the club's finances in jeopardy, but also gradually lost its attractiveness to the good players - after all, no one wants to stay for a long time with no money, no high salaries, and no one can play in the Champions League to increase their exposure.

Even their sponsors have changed, with ABN AMRO, the main sponsor of the jersey chest and supporting them for 19 years, ending its partnership with Ajax in the summer of 2008 and replacing them with global life insurance companies – which also have branches in China.

Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with Long Shute, who is still struggling in the second-tier team.

Poor results naturally affect sponsorship costs, and the club naturally does not have the strength to spend a lot of money in the transfer market, competing with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain and other giants, in fact, they can't even grab the famous European black store Porto and the like.

But for the sake of results, Ajax FC still took out all the money to let Van Basten strengthen the squad, and Van Basten was not ambiguous, spending 16 million euros to buy Serbian striker Miralem Soleimani, which is almost twice the all-time transfer record in Dutch football......

In addition to Soleimani, Van Basten also spent 7 million euros to sign Argentine striker Dario Kvitanic, and bought a 20-year-old attacker Ismail from rival PSV Eindhoven for another 4 million? Esati, these three transfer fees cost more than 30% of the club's annual income, but the problem is ...... In the forward line of this team, there are obviously two top killers in Suarez and Huntelaar......

Fan. Basten's obsession with buying strikers has earned him some criticism from the Amsterdam media, but that hasn't been enough to shake the club and the fans' support for him.

After all, his historical position in Dutch football is too high and too stable, and even the media reporters who criticize him can't discredit his glorious resume.

Unless his choice to sign later proved to be extremely wrong.

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But it didn't seem to be taking long, and after just half a season, Van Basten was feeling the pressure from all sides.

Suleimani, whom he bought for a lot of money, quickly fell silent after only a few highlights, and the other two new attackers were even less likely to play, signing loan deals with third-rate teams in the third-tier league early on.

On the other hand, Suarez and Huntelaar have exploded, with the two men vying to score goals in league and cup competitions.

But it didn't last long.

Because during the winter break, Huntelaar, who won the Eredivisie Golden Boot twice and was known as "Ruud van Nistelrooy II", left Real Madrid for a transfer price of 27 million euros, and formed a beautiful Dutch gang with Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robben, Llorente and others.

After the end of the winter break, Ajax lost to Groningen and Heerenveen in the middle of the rankings, and then barely drew with Hercules, and then was swept 4-1 by Vitesse, who fell into the relegation zone, and in four consecutive league games, Ajax only got one point, and only ranked fifth in the standings!

Van Basten, no matter how prestigious he was in Dutch football, began to be unable to sleep.