Ajax still has three trainers on the candidate list for next season: Erik ten Hag, Graham Potter and ‘the great unknown’, reports Valentijn Driessen. Of those three, at least the Englishman would have been present on Wednesday evening in the Johan Cruijff ArenA, where Ajax saved a point at the last minute against Excelsior (2-2). The head footballer of The Telegraph In any case, he has not been spotted, but he does know who is ‘still number one’ to succeed John van ‘t Schip next summer: Ten Hag.
“He would be present, but if so, he managed to hide well,” Driessen writes in his match report about Potter. The journalist does not dispute that the former coach of Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea ‘is certainly prominent on the list of candidates’ of the Amsterdam team, but he would therefore not be the only and not the favorite candidate.
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“In addition to a major unknown candidate, Erik ten Hag is still number 1 on Ajax’s list of three,” the journalist says. However, a return of the man from Haaksbergen, who, while Ajax was struggling against the Kralingers, achieved a spectacular victory with Manchester United in the Premier League, is shrouded in mystery: “Should he leave Manchester United? If so: when? And does Ten Hag want return to Ajax? Or is that related to a possible return of the suspended general manager Alex Kroes?”, Driessen wonders out loud.
More clarity about a return of the suspended general manager may become clear on Thursday, when supervisory board chairman Michael van Praag will discuss with the members: “If the two warring parties do not come together sooner, it will undoubtedly be an explosive shareholders’ meeting on May 21.” “With more fireworks than at Ajax-Excelsior,” Driessen predicts. Moreover, he is already mentioning the enormous job for Van ‘t Schip’s successor, whoever that may be: “With a possible invisible presence, Potter will in any case not have been impressed by the Ajax players. However, he saw what the whole of the Netherlands had already seen. knows: Ajax’s new coach has a gigantic job ahead of him. At the same time, that is also where the challenge lies for Ten Hag, Potter or the great unknown.”
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