Pre-season settings
The first objective is to get the players as fast as possible familiar with the tactics, so I have put the training as follows:
Pre-match: match tactics - 50%
General: fitness - high
For the remaining of the season I will keep Fitness as an important training and rotate it...
The tactics I'm going to use will be a 4-3-3 (or 4-1-2-3 to be more specific). There is going to be an important role for the wingers in this tactic. They need to be getting in one-vs-one situations with the opposite defenders, use their dribble and acceleration to pass them and then create...
As first action I have setup a new technical heart. For Director of Football I have promoted Tonny Bruins Slot, who was currently scout. TBS actually looks to be a very good DoF because of his stats (man.mngmt, judging potential and current ability) - but maybe even more important for this...
Background
After many crisis years in September 2012 it was Johan Cruyff who managed with his influence to initiate big changes at Ajax, which has been called since as the 'velvet revolution'. The board and management at that time had to leave due to pressure from all sides and Cruyff's plan to...