One of the recommendations in the report is to make up files on every youth player because parents have complained that there is hardly any follow-up on the meetings they have every six months with the coaches. Someone could have thought of that before, surely?

'Ajax, the road to victory'. It sounds like a DVD about entertaining football or a successful youth academy, but no. It is the title of a downloadable report on 10 years of mismanagement at one of Europe's most admired clubs.

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