Erik ten Hag, Marc Overmars, Edwin van der Sar & The Ajax Pheonix Project

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Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's European football writer Raphael Honigstein, to discuss one of the "forgotten super-coaches" - Ajax manager Erik ten Hag... Rafa, reveals the secrets to their re-emergence as a major European force, just two years on from *that* sensational Champions League run and their heart-breaking semi-final exit to Spurs. Plus, the trio compare the trajectory of both Tottenham and Ajax since that game, analyse why the stars of their 'Class of 2019' side (Ziyech, van de Beek, de Jong et al.) have struggled since leaving, as well as, how the trio of ten Hag, Sporting Director Marc Overmars and Chief Exec Edwin van der Sar, has become the envy of the footballing world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dunbar del. And I'm Floyd Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic Football
0:19.5	podcast. It's Wednesday, which means we'll be picking out one article from all the brilliant
0:23.4	writing available on the athletic andck. He finds the net.
0:34.3	I know the best of fans, thank here.
0:36.2	The Sommer will move to Barcelona, as all the players should be. I've been a sub more than
0:50.3	anyone. Today the brilliant Raphael Hondenstein joins us to discuss his article profiling Iax and their manager Eric Tenharg.
1:07.0	Lots of attention on their re-emerg is a major European force two years on from being seconds away from reaching a
1:13.8	Champions League final.
1:15.0	Yeah an exciting podcast and a very exciting coach as well who worked under Pep
1:19.4	at Bio Munich and whose teams ethos and style has seen him earning observers across Europe.
1:25.4	We're also going to have a look at how some of the stars from that 2019
1:28.8	squad are getting on and highlight the players at the heart of this revival right now who could be in demand just as high
1:35.3	as those previous players were in the summer. Not to mention Sporting Director Mark over Mars and Chief Executive
1:41.6	Edwin Vandesar as well.
1:43.5	We're going to say hello to Raff in a moment,
1:45.8	but first, Dan, I haven't had a chance to chat to you yet.
1:49.1	I did message you after the news on the weekend,
1:52.4	but Dean Smith sacked over the weekend as
1:55.7	Aston Villa head coach I know you've been doing the rounds on radio and pretty
2:00.3	much every single podcast that exists.
2:02.8	But yeah, how are you feeling about the whole situation?
2:06.5	Still Sadfla, because, you know, Dane Smith,
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