The adventure of Maurice Steijn (49) at Ajax has been limited to four hectic months in good consultation. The trainer, who dropped to seventeenth place in the Eredivisie due to the defeat at FC Utrecht (4-3) with Ajax, is held responsible for the dramatic performance of the Amsterdam club.
Despite the worst competition start in the club’s history, the native of The Hague gained confidence for a long time, because he was saddled with a selection that was worthless by Ajax standards by the tar and feathered director of football affairs, Sven Mislintat. Yet Steijn and Ajax agreed that it was better for both parties to part ways.
Even with the mediocre and weak players that Mislintat attracted, the former coach of VVV-Venlo, NAC Breda and Sparta should have performed better. But he failed to get his players to agree with his way of playing. There was a lot of criticism about his line-ups, Ajax’s play and the training sessions. The defeat at FC Utrecht was also the well-known last straw for Jan van Halst and Louis van Gaal, who openly supported him last week, but now, like Steijn, see no other option to terminate the trainer’s contract.
Shocked it took so long
End of an enormous error.
vindication for the two of us, just two months too late
Currently watching back last night’s studio voetbal laughing at the whole bizarre discussion about how he somehow isn’t to blame. So happy to see this news pop up while watching that.
It was so painfully obvious. It’s a shame that we’re right, it would’ve been better had Steijn been a success.
Didn’t fans, back then, say that if you turned out to be right later, it had to be just a lucky guess.
It felt like on reddit, people desperately wanted to be the ‘‘sensible’’ type of fans, so they refused to judge Steijn, cause his job wasn’t easy.
It didn’t take long till every support for Steijn just ended up being a fallacy. ‘‘Fans expect Ajax to play like prime-Barcelona after the coach’s first week!’’, ‘‘They’re are so many new players and you expect them to play like they did in the 70s?’’, ‘‘So you think this is all 100% Steijn’s fault?’’
I think, in the end, Steijn’s supporters were thinking more in black-and-white than the fans they accused of doing that.
Took 'm fucking long enough.
Finally… only 4 weeks to late. Now who will take over?
Graham Potter, Hansi Flick, Julian Lopetegui.
There are some decent managers available at the moment.
Potter would cook with them next year, if he keeps them up… But he’s awaiting a Prem job surely
Where would potter go in the premiere league realistically that is over Ajax?
Seems like most first half teams have their manager more or less sorted for the next season.
