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Ajax announce resignation of supervisory board
The Amsterdam giants have announced that Johan Cruyff, Edgar Davids, Steven ten Have, Paul Romer and Marjan Olfers will leave their posts shortly
By Stefan Coerts
Ajax have announced on their official website that the club's supervisory board has agreed to step down as soon as suitable replacements are found.
The board, consisting of club icon Johan Cruyff, Edgar Davids, Steven ten Have, Marjan Olfers and Paul Romer, was appointed on July 25, 2011, but since failed to get things going at the Amsterdam ArenA.
They mainly made the headlines for the disagreements between Cruyff and the remaining four commissioners, with the proposed appointment of Louis van Gaal as the club's new CEO the absolute low in the relationship between the two parties.
Davids, Ten Have, Romer and Olfers appointed Van Gaal during a meeting in November 2011 without properly informing Cruyff of the assembly and the appointment of 60-year-old. The legendary No.14 consequently filed a lawsuit in order to have the decision reversed, and Van Gaal's appointment was prohibited by an Amsterdam court on Monday.
The supervisory board was expected to be disbanded during a shareholders meeting on Friday, but they have now thrown in the towels themselves, with Friday's assembly consequently cancelled.
The departing supervisory board will now invite the annual general meeting (AVA) and the Works council (OR) to suggest new supervisory board members.
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"But, we came through. Obviously there were a lot of changes so it's good to get the result.
"Belgium are a very, very strong side who are going to be really good in the future. Vincent [Kompany] told me about them and said that they were coming good and I totally agree with him."
"[Gary] Cahill I suppose is slightly more of a concern for me because it is a jaw injury. We're desperately hoping the CT scan doesn't show any fracture and it's just going to be a bruising situation, which will be bad enough, but won't stop him taking part in the tournament. As far as John's [Terry] concerned he felt his hamstring a little bit. Again it wasn't a major thing when he came off but we still need to scan it just to be 100 per cent sure."
Suffice to say, if Cahill has broken his jaw, he won't play any part in the tournament.
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