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  • Attempts to improve the Liverpool squad with the signing of Uruguay international striker Luis Suárez are proving as complicated as Fenway Sports Group, the club's owners, anticipated when they targeted Ajax's captain for this transfer window.

    Liverpool job is the best I've ever been offered, says Kenny Dalglish 2011

  • Manchester United's Ashley Young, left, shoots past Ajax's Vurnon Anita to put his side 1-0 up in the Europa League.

    Ajax 0-2 Manchester United | Europa League last-32 match report 2012

  • Ajax's Lorenzo Ebecilio, centre, covers his face after a save by the Real Madrid goalkeeper Antonio Adán.

    Ajax 0-3 Real Madrid | Champions Group D match report 2011

  • United have also been fretting over Ajax's Maarten Stekelenburg, Atlético Madrid's David de Gea and Manuel Neuer of Schalke, who will all cost at least £20m.

    Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Juventus? Barney Ronay 2010

  • Cruyff is one of five members of Ajax's supervisory board.

    Football news in brief 2011

  • Ajax's decline surely has something to do with a bunch of high-priced failures in the transfer market, a failure to develop young talent and chronic instability in the dugout—Frank de Boer, the current head coach, is the club's seventh manager in the past five years.

    Cruyff Plans a Total Revolution Robin van Dalen 2011

  • For starters, the financial disparity between clubs from Europe's big five leagues—England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France—and the rest has grown significantly since Ajax's last Champions League success in 1995 following an explosion in the value of TV rights.

    Cruyff Plans a Total Revolution Robin van Dalen 2011

  • Still, many in this city are optimistic that with Cruyff's input and a return to Ajax's traditional values of developing homegrown talent, the club can mend its reputation—starting with Sunday's game against Twente.

    Cruyff Plans a Total Revolution Robin van Dalen 2011

  • "This isn't Ajax anymore," said Johan Cruyff, the club's greatest player, in a weekly column in De Telegraaf newspaper following Ajax's Champions League defeat to Real Madrid last November.

    Cruyff Plans a Total Revolution Robin van Dalen 2011

  • Paul Scholes has had to come out of retirement, but neither Ajax's Christian Eriksen nor Eden Hazard of Lille is likely to move anywhere until the summerWhat they got United have been clearing space.

    Transfer window: Premier League team-by-team guide 2012

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