7-1, but Alfred Schreuder (ex-Club) is completely empty: “I’m done with it. I can’t keep my mouth shut anymore” | Foreign Football

Schreuder did not draw attention to the fact that Ajax is again at the top of the Eredivisie. “I read an article that Brobbey would rot on the couch,” he grumbled. “Then you, as a journalist, don’t understand it at all. He has started six times in ten league matches and has continued to come in as a substitute. In his stint with Leipzig, he only played 252 minutes. We paid a lot of money for Brobbey, while he left on a free transfer,” said Schreuder about the transfer fee of more than 16 million euros. “He can sometimes work even harder and then he becomes a top striker in Europe. But a journalist has to stick to the facts. And I decide who plays and no one else.”

Analyst Wesley Sneijder told television last week that many people at Ajax think that Milos Malenovic, the agent of Schreuder and Dusan Tadic, has far too much power. “It’s true that he helped with transfers,” said Schreuder. “That is normal in football. Overmars is gone. This was new to all of us. Everyone has done an excellent job. But he is allowed at Ajax (Malenovic, ed.). again not helping. At other clubs, yes. He has helped tremendously and has done all this for Ajax. It was an extreme transfer window with eleven outgoing transfers. Last year no one left Ajax and I believe three new players came. We needed people with experience.”

“People think I’m a ‘softie’,” said Schreuder, in an increasingly loud voice. “But then they wouldn’t have been in the dressing room with me. Those stories are disturbing. Journalists must write the truth. Or give me a call. Then I answer like a man. But when you lose that many players, it takes time to build a team. That’s why we lose to Napoli twice. We’re not that far yet, we’re not used to it yet.”

Schreuder couldn’t do much with the comment that an Ajax trainer often gets little time. “If I don’t get the time, they should fire me,” he said. “That does not interest me. We work not ten but sixteen hours a day to make Ajax successful again. This is our life, this is our job.”