{"id":294005,"date":"2023-10-12T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=294005"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:24:40","slug":"ajax-legend-ronald-de-boer-slams-the-clubs-transfer-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/ajax-legend-ronald-de-boer-slams-the-clubs-transfer-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax legend Ronald De Boer slams the club&apos;s transfer policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ajax legend Ronald De Boer slams the club&#8217;s transfer policy with the Dutch giants in the relegation zone after their worst-ever start to the season: &#8216;You can&#8217;t make chocolate out of s**t&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ajax are in the relegation zone after just one win in six matches\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amsterdam club have appointed Louis Van Gaal as an advisor\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ajax legend Ronald De Boer has claimed his former club &#8216;can&#8217;t make chocolate with s**t&#8217; as he slammed their dismal start to the season and criticised their signings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch giants\u00a0are in the relegation zone in the Eredivisie, and have not won a match since the opening weekend, despite spending over \u00a386million on new players in the close-season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 2-1 loss at home to AZ Alkmaar on Sunday left Ajax third from bottom after six matches, their joint-worst start to a league campaign along with the 1964-65 season.<\/p>\n<p>De Boer acknowledged it was naive to expect any immediate improvements and blamed the club&#8217;s transfer policy for the current struggles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It may seem tough, but you can&#8217;t make chocolate out of s**t,&#8217; he told the Voetbal International podcast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/11\/76469469-0-image-a-6_1697107001179.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ajax legend Ronald De Boer has launched a scathing attack against his former club\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m really worried, I don&#8217;t know where that&#8217;s going. I have nothing against the guys who have arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They are happy to play at Ajax, but it is not possible to bring in so many second-rate players and think that they will perform at a higher level.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Steijn&#8217;s first season in charge of the four-time European Cup winners could have hardly begun more disastrously on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Ajax&#8217;s clash with arch-rivals Feyenoord at the Johan Cruyff Arena<span>\u00a0was halted twice and eventually<\/span>\u00a0abandoned in the 56th minute<span>\u00a0with the visitors 3-0 up after home fans launched flares onto the pitch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The match resumed behind closed doors four days later, with Feyenoord completing the rout with a fourth goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Just hours before the resumption, Ajax chief Pier Eringa stepped down after just six months in his role following a deluge of criticism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He was followed out of the door by director of football Sven Mislintat, who had only been appointed in May but was fired in a bid to quell unrest in and around the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ajax face FC Utrecht away from home after the international break, which De Boer sarcastically described as a relegation six-pointer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/11\/76469385-0-image-a-8_1697107014847.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ajax are in the relegation zone after their worst start to a season since 1964-65<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/11\/76469371-0-image-a-7_1697107011398.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ajax fans caused the suspension of the clash against arch-rivals Feyenoord last month<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/11\/76469427-0-image-a-9_1697107017850.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maurice Steijn&#8217;s first season in charge of the four-time European Cup winners could have hardly begun more disastrously<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve never experienced anything like this,&#8217; he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I watched the loss against AZ on Sunday. The match was terribly bad.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After three league titles in four years, Ajax finished third last season and failed to qualify for the Champions League\u00a0for the first time in 13 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>It is a remarkable decline for Ajax, who came within a whisker of reaching the Champions League final under Erik ten Hag in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And De Boer, who won five Eredivisie titles and the Champions League with Ajax, warned it may be a while before the Amsterdam giants get to walk on European football&#8217;s biggest stage again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everyone thinks we were going to play against Bayern Munich or PSG for the next twenty years,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All of that has now vanished and that hurts.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to save their campaign, Ajax last week hired their former manager\u00a0Louis van Gaal\u00a0as an adviser.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/12\/11\/76469367-0-image-a-10_1697107023680.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Man United boss Louis van Gaal has rejoined his old club Ajax in an advisor role<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal, 72, won three league championships and the 1995 Champions League as head coach of the Amsterdam side between 1991 and 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want to help Ajax,&#8217; he said in a statement on the club&#8217;s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am willing to offer my football knowledge to the Supervisory Board, especially when Leo van Wijk and Michael van Praag are appointed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We must find our sportive way back up to the top, and we all have to contribute to that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12623021\/Ajax-Ronald-Boer-transfer-policy-crisis-Eredevisie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajax legend Ronald De Boer slams the club&#8217;s transfer policy with the Dutch giants in the relegation zone after their worst-ever start to the season: &#8216;You can&#8217;t make chocolate out of s**t&#8217; 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