One of the great unknowns of this 2023 is what fate will bring to
Marcelo Gallardo
.
The coach left his position at
River Plate
after eight years, ready to face a new challenge.
After participating in the Riyadh Season, where he led a team of footballers from
Al Nassr
and Al Hilal (including
Cristiano Ronaldo
) in a friendly against
Lionel Messi
's
Paris Saint Germain
,
the name of the Doll sounds to take charge of a European giant.
Gallardo led CR7 in the Riyadh Season.
We are talking about
Ajax
, one of the main teams in the Netherlands and winner of four
Champions Leagues
, which
recently fired its manager Alfred Schreuder after a series of poor results
.
The team could not advance to the round of 16 of the Champions Cup and came from six consecutive draws in the Eredivisie, reaching seven games without victories and being 7 points behind the leader Feyenoord.
The team
's performance in the hands of the 50-year-old coach fell far short of the expectations of the leaders of the Dutch team
, who hoped to continue the run of success achieved under
Erik Ten Hag
, currently at
Manchester United
.
That is why they decided to remove him and begin the search for a successor.
That's where Gallardo comes in.
Schreuder, the DT thrown out of Ajax.
According to local media, Napoleon is one of the names on the long list of candidates to take command, and he is not the only Argentine.
Mauricio Pochettino
and Marcelo Bielsa are other aspirants
to coach Ajax along with other figures such as
Louis Van Gaal
,
Luis Enrique
, former technical directors of the Netherlands and Spain in the Qatar World Cup respectively, Pete Bosz (he directed Bayer Leverkusen and the Lyon), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (last spell at United) and John Heitinga (former club player).
Pochettino, another of the names to lead Ajax.
Whoever takes office will have Argentine
Gerónimo Rulli
on the team .
The world champion goalkeeper arrived in this transfer window to the Dutch team from Villarreal in exchange for 15 million euros.
Rulli, Ajax's new goalkeeper.
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