Ajax: Cruyff vs Van Gaal…undecided…

January 18th, 2012 | by: Jan | Comments(17)

Who was it that said Fact is sometimes stranger than Fiction? In the case of Cruyff vs Ajax vs the Board of Directors vs Louis van Gaal there was another court case… I’m telling you, when you are an Ajax fan this is a nightmare!

When you are neutral you wonder what the fukc is happening at Ajax and when you are an enemy you laugh yourself silly.

Me, I think it’s sad…

And clearly, the court doesn’t have a clue anymore.

Now the latest rumor is, that the Board of Directors can not be dismissed without the main sponsor claiming tens of millions of euros in damages… This would kill off the club.

It is true? Who knows? The sponsor knows but they are playing Tommy. The deaf dumb and blind kid. On whose side are they on?? Most likely the Board’s. As JC never had a lot of time for sponsors.

More and more inside information ends up in the media. Want to know what goes on at Ajax, internally? Read on.

The Bosrd of Directors lawyer:

1. Cruyff doesn’t know the difference between business governance and football: Orlando Trustful trains at Ajax without having a license. Illegal. Youth coach Bryan Roy negotiates with Adidas about a 3 mio euro costing blow up practice hall. Wrong. Ajax has a Georgier doing a loan spell in the youth without having gone through proper procedures.

2. Ergo: Jonk and Bergkamp lack management skills.

3. Cruyff thinks he has veto-right. He doesn’t.

4. Cruyff claims the youth academy doesn’t train individually. Cruyff is wrong. They do.

5. Cruyff was only present at one Board meeting out of nine and for that one meeting he took Bergkamp, Jonk and La Ling without prior notice. Not done.

6. Van Gaal is happy to talk to Cruyff. Cruyff doesn’t want to talk to Louis. This makes Cruyff unfit as board member.

7. Cruyff leaks info to his media stooges and creates a culture of fear at Ajax. Van Gaal didn’t want Cruyff to know about negotiations as he didn’t want his name in the media.

8. If Cruyff wants to be the boss at Ajax, he should be a big boy and buy the shares and run the club like Abramovic at Chelsea. Then, JC can get his way.

9. Van Gaal was never planning to involve himself with the technical side as general manager. Interim manager Sturkenboom asked Wim Jonk several times for the Plan JC but never received it. This is obstruction.

10. Danny Blind is blamed for by-passing De Boer/Jonk/Bergkamp but there is evidence that Blind consulted with De Boer for specific situations and evidence of De Boer giving consent for specific decisions.

11. Any confidential conversation with Cruyff ends up in the media within the hour.

12. Cruyff, Bergkamp and Jonk do not represent the core of the Ajax employees. They are three people trying to seize power at Ajax.

Cruyff’s lawyer:

1. Louis van Gaal said in many interviews in the last 18 months that he doesn’t want to be involved with Ajax as long as JC is there.

2. When the Board approaches him behind JC’s back, he’s suddenly keen to come?!

3. Cruyff was in Amsterdam for a long spell and was never invited to meetings and the day he returned to Barcelona there suddenly was an meeting on “future appointments”. It was never suggested that this was an urgent decision making meeting and the Board clearly waited until JC was out of the country.

4. Chair Ten Have informed the media about Van Gaal before he informed fellow board-member Cruyff! This was done to put pressure on Cruyff, to not upset the apple cart. ( Clearly, Ten Have doesn’t know Cruyff….)

5. The other board members don’t know Cruyff’s arguments con Van Gaal as they never asked him about it.

6. Cruyff was appointed to the board to execute his plan. The other four were there to facilitate and make up the numbers. Now, the other four shot the JC plan out of the water!

7. The Board claimed they didn’t email JC about their steps because the emails go through JC’s wife and that was too sensitive (…). Why is it that it is ok for Ten Have to receive emails via his press officer?

8. The Board meeting in January was also shrewdly planned on a day that JC was on a holiday ( Mauritius) and therefore couldn’t come to the meeting. The holiday dates were known months before and the Board chair could have avoided this.

9. The former management of Ajax agreed to execute the JC plan. Therefore, the board and management agreed to do this and is therefore not just “a JC plan” but it’s an Ajax plan. Changing the organisational structure without consulting with the plan’s author is therefore inappropriate and invalid.

10. Frank de Boer recently said in a media interview to support the plan Cruyff and stated that there will be no room at Ajax for Van Gaal.

11. The club council also spoke with both parties (Van Gaal and Cruyff) and their unanimous conclusion was: there is no room for these two to cooperate.

12. And there is a petition of 160.000 fans who want to follow the JC route and not the Van Gaal avenue.

13. Van Gaal does not have a good track record at Ajax in the management role. In 2003 he was sacked after 8 months when he clashed with the head coach.

14. Interim manager Sturkenboom never read the plan Cruyff but did sack two youth coaches without consultation with Jonk and Bergkamp and he even gave Jonk two yellow cards (WTF??) which is like a reprimande or something…

15. Blind acts as spokesman for the club and comments on youth players’ development, which is not in the interest of the players nor the coaches. With this, he interferes with the core group strategy. His role ( Blind’s position) was never part of JC’s plan and should therefore be made null and void.

16. The board wanted Van Basten before they decided on Van Gaal. Why didn’t the board go ahead with Van Basten’s appointment behind Cruyf’s back??? Why did they allow Cruyff to talk to Marco and not with Van Gaal?

Court will resume on Feb 7….