The Amsterdam giants were top of the table, but only on goal difference, as the Dutch FA decided to award no winners of the top flight.
Another Breakup
Just one year after reaching the Champions League semi-final, Ajax are set to have their side picked apart again - starting with goalkeeper Andre Onana. Onana has confirmed that he’ll look to leave the Dutch side whenever the transfer window opens again.
Hakim Ziyech has already sealed a move to Premier League side Chelsea, and that will rob the side of six goals and 12 assists as well as their best creator. But things won’t just stop there.
More Bad News
23-year-old pair Donny van de Beek and David Neres have lit up the leagues and scouts from across Europe have cast envious glaces at the duo, who were also a fixture of the side that should have beat Tottenham Hotspur in that Champions League semi.
It’s one of the most depressing things about modern football, the way that talented outfits from the lesser leagues across the continent can be picked apart by bigger clubs. Back in the day, the Ajax side of 2018/2019 would have had at least one more crack at it before the vultures started to circle, but as it was Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt were sold to Barcelona and Juventus.
Depressing
If Onana does leave, it will surely start the beginning of the end for this potentially great side. Ajax sell players to keep the wheel turning, and to give chances to those coming through the Academy.
But while this is a cause for celebration, it should also be seen through it’s depressing lens as what could have been dissipates across Europe as the final chance for a side lower down the pecking to do well ends.