Ajax announced earlier this week that it would say goodbye to Suzanne Bakker after this season. The coach has an expiring contract and the Amsterdam club management has decided not to renew it.
“Public opinion is often judged on the basis of performance. And those performances are satisfactory, even very nice from a European perspective. However, it is ultimately up to me not to continuously focus on the present, but also to look further into what we are looking for.” want to do,” Daphne Koster, women’s football manager, explained on Ajax TV on Thursday. Het Parool now comes up with a reasoning about Bakker’s upcoming departure.
The newspaper sees that the Amsterdam team is hugely behind FC Twente in the competition (currently ten points). “Initiates say that the European campaign masks a lot. In the entourage of the Champions League, with sometimes tens of thousands of spectators and large stadiums, Ajax rises above itself. In the competition, on the other hand, the Amsterdam team does not always manage to play dominant football,” writes Bas Soetenhorst.
According to him, the game under Bakker is even more worrying than the loss of points. “The scoring ability often does not last and the team sometimes looks vulnerable. That is not today or yesterday; the national title last season involved a lot of luck,” it is reported. “That does not fit with Koster’s aim to structurally join the best sixteen in Europe. To reach that level, Ajax cannot be dependent on outliers in the Champions League. It must have played a role in the decision to say goodbye to Bakker “, concludes Soetenhorst.
