The conflict between Louis Van Gaal and the club caused a huge disturbance among the fan base.
Ajax faced Roda JC at home in the 25th round of the Eredivisie.
Most of the main players who played in the Champions League in the middle of the week were on the substitutes' bench. Qin Xiong was surprised to see many Ajax fans holding up signs in support of Comain in the stands. In contrast, they were attacking Louis Van Gaal.
In less than a year, Louis Van Gaal and Comain would appear in the newspapers from time to time over the control of the club. It was no longer a secret.
This time, in the conflict between Louis Van Gaal and the club, Comain was actually not the target of Louis Van Gaal, but the fans chose to support Comain against Louis Van Gaal.
It was almost the middle of March now. It could be said that they had entered the second half of the season. The team had to prepare early for next season's recruitment. This was the routine administrative work of most European clubs. It was impossible to wait until the transfer window opened to look for targets.
Louis Van Gaal, as the technical director, thought that he had a lot of power, including the recruitment of the team. He hoped that the team could buy some strong players to strengthen the team. No matter what Ajax's final results were this season, would a strong team hate a stronger team?
Of course not.
But the club still did the same thing in the past. They wanted to bring in good seedlings at good prices. Moreover, they spent six million euros in the transfer market last summer to bring in Sonke. First of all, it proved that this recruitment was a failure. Secondly, the cost of the transfer fee and salary spent on Sonke had not been digested. Of course, the board of directors was unwilling to spend money to gamble.
Under such circumstances, Louis Van Gaal was disheartened. It was reasonable for him to have a showdown with the club.
He had great talent and vision, but the club did not cooperate and support him. Then what was the use of him as the technical director?
A year ago, Ajax proudly announced that they had invited Louis Van Gaal back as the technical director for life!
In less than a season, Louis Van Gaal was ordered to leave by the club at the end of the season.
He still remembered when Louis Van Gaal took over and told the fans passionately that in the Netherlands, there was only one greatest football club, and that was Ajax!
He spoke passionately about his own twelve-line poem, which was made into a song by the fans.
Today, less than a year later, most fans had forgotten about it. They thought that the team needed stability. Comain had done a good job, and the club itself had a situation where the manager and technical director were restricting each other. It was a deformed combination in the construction of a football club. Did they want to turn Ajax into a club ruled by a dark tyrant like Feyenoord?
Today, most of Ajax's die-hard fans suddenly realized that perhaps Cruyff was right back then.
Before Louis Van Gaal was invited back by Ajax, when the scandal began to spread, Cruyff was the first to stand up and sing a different tune. In his column, he thought that Ajax was making a wrong decision.
Ajax's substitute players worked hard and neatly defeated Roda JC at home with a score of 3: 0.
In the same round of the competition, PSV Eindhoven was unable to recover in the league after losing to Amsterdam in the second half of the league tournament.
After losing to Ajax, in the 25th round of the league tournament, they lost to Feyenoord led by Van Marwijk with a score of 0: 1 at the Philips Stadion.
In the second half of the league tournament, PSV Eindhoven actually lost four games!
This expanded Ajax's lead in the league tournament to 15 points!
When the fans were celebrating and the club began to prepare for the championship celebration, another piece of news came.
Louis Van Gaal resigned on his own accord!
Louis Van Gaal, who had a fiery personality and strong self-esteem, would not wait until he was kicked out by the club at the end of the season. He resigned on his own accord!
Ajax's fans had completely changed sides and no longer supported Louis Van Gaal.
In particular, they were misled by the media to think that Louis Van Gaal appeared at Stamford Bridge because he had found his next club and would bring Ajax's star player to London as a gift to Abramovich. Some radical fans even applauded Louis Van Gaal's departure.
Louis Van Gaal handed in his resignation, packed his things and left the club the next day.
Only one person came to see him off.
Qin Xiong.
In order to send Louis Van Gaal off, Qin Xiong even asked for leave from training.
He was in the club.
He came to Louis Van Gaal's office, helped him pack his personal belongings, put them in a box, helped Louis Van Gaal carry it, and then accompanied Louis Van Gaal to leave together.
The one who drove to pick up Louis Van Gaal at the entrance of the club was his daughter, who was nearly 30 years old.
The weather was a bit cold today, and the cold wind was bleak.
After putting all his personal belongings in the car, Louis Van Gaal asked his daughter to wait for a while. He and Qin Xiong walked side by side along the road outside the club.
Qin Xiong did not know what to say. He was not in a good mood today.
He did not understand, so he did not understand.
What was the struggle for power and profit in the club for?
More wealth? More fame? Or something else?
He could not understand.
He also did not understand why Ajax could not tolerate Louis Van Gaal, a man who had broken his heart for the club ten years ago, led the team step by step to the top of Europe, and made Ajax return to the top of Europe after the 1970s. He was a man who had made outstanding contributions!
He might not know the history of Ajax as well as the hardcore fans of Ajax, and he did not have many fans who followed Ajax's footsteps to have special feelings for the club. He did not have the football pundits who could write a lot of opinions in the newspaper to understand the true picture of Ajax.
He was pure and simple. He came here to play football for victory, for life, and for the future.
Louis Van Gaal was a talent scout in his heart. From watching him train to teaching him football skills and tactics for countless days, Louis Van Gaal did not ask for anything in return from him personally and carefully cultivated him.
Qin Xiong did not know what expression he had now. It was a little stubborn, a little depressed, or maybe a little ferocious or sad.
After walking for about twenty minutes, Louis Van Gaal stopped and turned around to face Qin Xiong with a somewhat arrogant smile on his face.
Until this moment, he still did not show the slightest embarrassment of a stray dog.
He said to Qin Xiong, "Don't show that look of sympathy or pity, or feel that I'm not worth it. At this time, I'm telling myself that it's not that I'm being driven away, but that this club is no longer worthy of me. Do you understand? "
Qin Xiong's facial muscles trembled slightly, and he nodded fiercely.
Louis Van Gaal had told him before that Ajax had changed, and the Orange Kingdom no longer shone on the map of European football.
If Ajax had lived in Spain, Germany, Italy, or England, perhaps Ajax would have had to be controlled by someone with grand goals and ambitions like Louis Van Gaal to remain competitive.
But unfortunately, Ajax was in the Netherlands.
Even if the distance between them was constantly left behind by the European elite group, as long as they could still put on an arrogant attitude in the Orange Kingdom, Ajax did not seem to have a sense of crisis and no longer had the motivation to move forward. The adventurous spirit of the past had gradually disappeared, and realistic interests began to override ideals. Ajax seemed to have begun to degenerate in decay and memories.
Louis Van Gaal's right hand pressed hard on Qin Xiong's shoulder and said with a serious expression, "If you plan to continue to stay in the Netherlands, Ajax is still your best choice. But if you want to leave the Netherlands, you must choose carefully. At your age, one wrong step is likely to destroy your entire future!"
Qin Xiong nodded fiercely. He did not know why he still could not say a word, but the sadness in his heart grew heavier and heavier.
"This season is already a success for you, but don't be satisfied. The opportunity to enter the top eight of the Champions League is already in front of you. There are many players, star players, and superstars who have exhausted their careers. I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to achieve anything on the stage of the Champions League. When you have the opportunity, you must not use your youth as a way out. Don't think that you've missed it this time. You still have five, ten, fifteen years, or even longer to fight for it. No, when the opportunity comes, you have to grab it at all costs.
Qin Xiong still nodded fiercely, and his eyes were a little moist.
Louis Van Gaal saw Qin Xiong's sad look and reached out to hit him on the head with a smile. Then he turned to the side of the road and got into his eldest daughter's car. He did not say anything and left!
He sat in the front passenger seat and looked at Qin Xiong in the rearview mirror. He stood where he was and watched him leave. Suddenly, he smiled and said to himself, "Deserted again."
He, who had been deserted twice in Barcelona, could calmly accept today's ending.
For people with strong personalities, they would either rule or be overthrown and ruled. They would either stand at the top and look down on all living things, or be spurned by tens of thousands of people.
Louis Van Gaal saw the figure in the rearview mirror gradually blurring. He closed his eyes and thought absentmindedly that there seemed to be such a person who came to see him off in Catalonia.
That person's name was Xavi.
"Where will we meet next time?"
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