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Me too, the stupid little cunt. This.

Fucking dickheads. Feel sorry for Enrique reading that Tweet like.

I've convinced myself that Tiote and Anita will make him a better full back.

I'd honestly play Jonas full back. Simpson gets nowhere near my team on FIFA.

Completely agree. Liverpool certainly could finish top 4 this year if they got every break going, and that's essentially all he's really said.

It's not that bad man FFS.

Hope so, Davids is one of my favourite players ever. I like this signing, suggests we will play 433 more often than not if everyone is fit. Could do with a better attacking right back if that's the case mind.

Lol!

Yeah, would imagine that was the desired effect tbh.

You know what? I don't know how but he ended up on my buddy list. Did anyone notice he kept putting different references to me in his sig for days? I was fucking screwing. I'm assuming, and hoping it was just a joke based around that. Otherwise, I'm still shitting bricks about his obsession with me. He had a (totally unfounded) reference to me in his sig the other week, that's why I gave him a load of abuse in the random thoughts thread.

But they've only managed to win their own league 4 times since 1998. PSV Eindhoven had a massive run with 7 titles since 2000, similar to Olympique Lyon had in France. PSV choked access to the vital CL millions for the other top teams in the Eredivisie. OK, well this is a better explanation, still don't think it makes much difference in terms of the argument at hand mind, i.e. whether Ajax can act hard done by when their players go elsewhere.

Look back 20 years and see what happend in european football. Are you referring to the influx of money in other leagues? If so then it doesn't explain their relative mediocrity domestically and also their inability to have the odd good European campaign reaching the semis/final or winning a competition like smaller clubs such as Porto/Leverkusen, etc. Not really sure how people are claiming Ajax have been hamstrung by the money in other leagues and that's all there is to it, surely if that was the case they'd win their own league more often than not.

Fucking internet.

But they've only managed to win their own league 4 times since 1998.

4 European Cups, 31 league titles, produced/developed some amazing players/coaches over the years and have been one of the great pioneers of the game. They are a very big club to be fair and it is a shame that their footballing culture and production line basically counts for absolutely fuck all now with the way football is going. That said, their fans come across very poorly on that board (some admittedly put through the Google translator). Welcome to RAWK. Exactly.

Read my post again and tell me you disagree with it Sewelly, I'm saying their achievements over the last 20 years haven't been much cop and they can't just class themselves as a by-product of the reality of modern football - they've actually contributed towards their own position with their relative underachievement over the last 20 years. I've often looked at the Dutch league and seen teams other than Ajax winning it and Ajax doing nothing in Europe and thought the club must be being mismanaged given their youth academy, prestige and all the rest of it. They're clearly a big club historically but so what.

Have only skim-read this thread really but not sure what problem Ajax fans have a right to have to be honest. Historically they're a huge club but they've done nothing in Europe since the mid 90s and haven't even won the league that many times since then, although they've of course won the last couple. The Dutch League is a small pond now but Ajax can't even class themselves as a particularly big fish within that since their achievements over the last 10-20 years have been so thoroughly unimpressive given their resources and history compared to other Dutch and even other European clubs. They were huge when I was a kid but they've really dropped off so they can fuck off with this big club shit as far as I'm concerned.

What the fucking hell is that?

We signed this daft cunt yet?

Only seen bits of this but Milner looked fucking class.

Clever crossing.

Ba will be chuffed he's getting played in the middle.

Basically Rodgers won't play him at all, Carroll will get fed up by the end of August then we'll sign him, probably on loan. Unless we sign another forward I'd be quite surprised if things didn't pan out exactly like that.

Then Uncal Mick possesses the most exciting creative mind since William Shakespeare.

Bit like Essien's role at Chelsea down the years.