This season's Champions League group stage has come to an end, and when it comes to the most disappointing teams, I believe Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund will definitely be on the list. On the other hand, Ajax won all six games in Group C, becoming the most impressive "dark horse". From time to time, Ajax will play well in the Champions League, just like in the 2018/19 season, this powerful team from the Dutch First Division eliminated the defending champions Real Madrid and Juventus in succession, and finally completed the Champions League with a final four result. After achieving excellent results this season, many teams left the team to shoot, but the development was mediocre. This article will detail the four players who were originally wei zhen Dutch A and developed less satisfactorily after the transfer.
Frenki De Jong
Frenki De Jong was one of the four protagonists in this article, the first to leave Ajax, switching to Barcelona after completing the season in January 2019. This season is already Frenki De Jong's third season for Barcelona, and the performance of the Dutch midfielder who was good at breaking through, transmitting and protecting the ball in Barcelona was only decent, but due to the poverty and weakness of Barcelona in recent years, the team's performance was not as good as before, and the position had to accommodate the team's "big brother" Busquets, so that Frenki De Jong's development and performance in the past three seasons did not meet the expectations of the outside world. After Barcelona were out of the Champions League group stage this season, it was reported that the team was interested in selling Frenki De Jong due to dissatisfaction with his performance. But Frenki De Jong's performance at Ajax is obvious to all, and perhaps Frenki De Jong as the core rebuilding team is more suitable for barcelona than the sale, but if the players are to be sold to get out of the financial crisis, it is a different story.
Hakim Ziyeh
Hakim Ziyech has won three of the best players in the Eredivisie and is known in European football for his four-seater "golden left foot". His performance drew the favor of then Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, who offered to buy the Morocco international in the winter window after Chelsea passed the transfer ban. In February 2020, Chelsea reached an agreement with Ajax to sign Hakim Ziyech for 40 million euros, which will officially join in the summer of the same year. However, due to the invasion of the epidemic, the Dutch First Division ended the season early and the European competition was postponed to the summer vacation, which indirectly ended Hakim Ziyech's Ajax career early.
After Joining Chelsea, Hakim Ziyech quickly integrated into Lampard's "4231" formation and attacking football after a brief recovery at the beginning of the season, and Hakim Ziyech's transmission and shooting became the team's weapon to "break the dense defense". But then Chelsea's record plummeted, dropping to ninth place. After Chelsea replaced Thomas Tuchel as the coach, the new coach took the "343" formation as the first choice, and attached importance to rapid counterattack, which made the positioning of Hakim Ziyeh, who was not outstanding in speed and physique, embarrassing, although he had made key goals against Manchester City and Atletico Madrid, it was still difficult to change his substitute role, and he was not sent in the FA Cup and Champions League finals. This season, Hakim Ziyech still spends a lot of time on the injury and bench, and he has a bad relationship with the national team manager, which is in line with the spirit of the best player in the Dutch League.
Mattez De Ligt
Mattez De Ligt led the team to the final four of the Champions League as the youngest captain in the history of the team, during which time his performance was solid and he had the ability to score goals, making Mates De Ligt the hottest defender after the season. In the end, Juventus overpowered a number of strong opponents to sign Matez De Ligt, looking forward to his succession to Chiellini in the future, as well as cooperating with Ronaldo, Dybala and other stars to win the Champions League. But surprisingly, Mattes De Ligt was weak in Serie A, often losing penalties for reckless fouls or handball. Coupled with the old and strong performance of Chiellini and Bonucci, Matez De Ligt is not necessarily the right choice in the hands of Sarri and Pirlo.
Van der Beek
Van de Beek, the last of the four protagonists to leave, joined Manchester United in September 2020 for £39 million. Van der Beek excelled at advancing and transmitting, and soon scored his first Premier League goal. Unfortunately, Manchester United's midfielders are full of talent, in addition to B Fee and Pogba, there are also midfielders such as Fred, Nemanja Matic and Scott McTominay, so that the then Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer often cast Van de Beek idle, but Van de Beek often greets the coach with a professional training attitude, which is deeply loved by Manchester United fans. Ironically, in Solskjaer's final game against the "Red Devils", the hardest performer was Van de Beek, not only scoring goals, but also delivering wonderful transmissions more times, but unfortunately still losing 1-4 to Watford. Manchester United is currently coached by German manager Ronnick, and it is expected that Van de Beek's Manchester United career will improve.
This season, Ajax once again delivered a brilliant performance in the Champions League battlefield, I believe that many players in the squad will become the "prey" of the giants, but the difficulties faced by a group of brothers and sisters after the transfer are still vivid, and I hope that Ajax's brothers and disciples can make better plans for their playing careers.