Jonathan Wilson

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Indo Sport · Ireland's Israel week | The mystery of Zidane | Klopp's homecoming · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

I mean, yeah, Michels went there.

or 71, wasn't it, when he went there.

He took Cruyff and Nashkins with him from Ajax.

So that link between Ajax and Barcelona has been there for 50, whatever it is, 55 years.

And then you obviously have Cruyff coming back as a coach in the late 80s.

La Masia, which is designed to Cruyff's ideal to replicate the Ajax academy.

So that link between Ajax and Barcelona I think is very strong.

And I think it's been a relatively...

common strand of thought in Dutch football over the last 20 years that true Dutch football is actually now played in Barcelona and not necessarily in Amsterdam so yeah to go back to the sources I think is a really fascinating inversion

No, I think that's a fair enough assessment.

I mean, you've got people like Mickey van der Veen, Jürgen Timber, obviously coming back from injury at the back, Jan-Paul van Hecke.

So there's Denzel Dumfries, very good full-back now at Real Madrid.

So there's the core of a decent back four there with van der Veen playing on the left or Joel Hattock playing on the left, I guess.

The midfield, I mean, Grafenberg's been out of form this season, but we saw two seasons ago at Liverpool how good he can be alongside Frankie de Jong, who I don't think is in this squad, is he?

But I mean, when he comes back, Thierry Reinders didn't work out for him at City, but he's clearly a decent player.

Coop Miners, he's now gone to Juventus.

And then they've got Cody Gakpo, they've got Somerville, they've got Brian Brobbey, you know, scored a hat-trick at the weekend.

So, Daniel Marlin, when he's fit, Memphis Depay,

They've got options there.

So, yeah, look, I don't think they're going to go into the Euros.

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