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The Dutchman won three Eredivisie titles and the Champions League during his six years as manager but admits financial difficulties forced him to rely on the club's academy

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Louis van Gaal has revealed that he paid Finidi George’s £3,000 transfer fee during his time at Ajax.

The Dutchman won three Eredivisie titles and the Champions League during his six-year spell as Ajax manager but also played a key role in bringing Edgar Davids, Patrick Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf and Edwin van der Sar through to the first team.

Speaking at the LMA annual conference, Van Gaal reflected on his time at Ajax and how he was forced to rely on the club’s academy for success.

“We didn’t have any money and we were bankrupt, so I had to look to youth,” the Manchester United boss told The Daily Telegraph.

“We scouted [Jari] Litmanen, a Finnish player, who we bought for £10,000. We also bought Finidi George. He was a Nigerian international. He was £3,000. I paid it by myself! And then, we bought Marc Overmars.

“But the names that you do remember are Seedorf, Kluivert, [Michael] Reiziger. We won everything with very attacking football. I don’t say it too much because otherwise Mr Scholes will be very angry!”

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2015/11/18/17461212/van-gaal-reveals-he-paid-for-a-players-transfer-fee-at-ajax?ICID=HP_TS_5

ernesty20:
The zoo must fall

we need find person we dey behind ur matter asap before e worse pass this level

RollingStones:
APC and their TERRORIST DULLARD are responsible

Just like your moniker, your brain rolled outta your skull already like a rollingstone.

This youths surely ain't updated, the same IGP Ekweremadu wants sacked I laugh in Swahili

successiam:
I hate Nigeria

God bless my Niger Delta

God bless Biafra

And you on Biafraland right?? Sure ur sorry asss lives in Lagos

dayo23:
exactly what came to my mind, I think the military should stop Decieving us, I have been following up the Paris update and everything there prosecutors come out with is genuine not lies, between am one of NA biggest fan

When NA denied the picture I believe it's to douse the fears in people and I really commend them the way they responded... More of such massive victories we hope and pray for. #Shalom

ishiamu:
When northerners steal they go scot free

Dasuki is an easterner

All this criminals claiming to be sick, should just vomit what they embezzled and get lost.. When Alison and Dasuki were in office they never told us they were ill and wouldn't have if GEJ had won now they are facing the reggae blues they played while in office they all shouting sickness like thousand of Nigerians had not died of one sickness or the other due to their greediness

They shouldn't forget to compile the list of their own party members both present and past facing corruption charges also

Ugomba:
Wike- The APC Tomentor

lol in ur dreams moreover its tormentor not that poo you spelt there.

hmmmm

tinktanker:
Association of powerful criminals. APC

Party of Deluded People = PDP

[size=20pt]mod don give up say naija no fit score[/size]

dotcomnamename:
[size=20pt]Mod pls update[/size]

Promhize:
Anybody that commends buhari for this needs to have his head examined

Was if FG that initiated the project? Nonsense! Propaganda government.

Have you examined yours?

Any link to the match

Lol

NJPot:
He is not a true blood of Igbo nation. May be he was born and abandoned by a Yoruba woman and was picked up by an Ibo family. Igbos are not known to be armed robbers or bad people. But are known to be the best in business, education, sports, entertainment and all the good things of life. Even oyibo people borrowed some sense from Igbos. If you doubt, see 25 English words stolen from Igbo language.

Too much weed ain't good for your brain

mployer:
He will fail again like he failed in Saraki's case.


Wicked old man.

So AIT wasn't wicked when they were airing trash about him they got no evidence for Some people just post trash on NL like they don't reason before commenting

shammah1:
This apollo eye man again... Is this government about vengeance and hate. These 2 parties both own communications. Tinubu is a shame to south west and Nigeria.

It was people like you that was hailing AIT when they were airing the trash they got no evidence for now it's time to show the evidence they claim to have and all you can spew is this dust here You a disgrace to your alma mater

I could remember the final Nigeria Played against Spain in 2007, Akinsola and Chrisantus lead the team from front... Akinsola claimed to be 16 years during the tournament but the dude got 2kids at home already, Never knew life was so easy in Nigeria a 16 year old kid would think of starting a family. Check the Spanish team that lost that final match to Nigeria We got David Degea, Asier Illarramendi, Bojan Krkić, Nacho,and many more and they still playing active football in top class teams while you can't point to a Nigerian player of that set playing in a good European club... Hazard and Benteke played that same tournament, but where are the Tella Golden Boys?

Dragonking:
This is why we don't move forward...We are the same ones that always plot our downfall....The eediot that wrote this article has forgotten that of recent, before the tournament starts, all players will undergo an MRI scan first to determine their true age...So if the boys underwent the scan by FIFA and they were successful, why should this nincompoop come and write this trash Nigeria is it own enemy I swear. **spits**

Bro forget Fifa scan, i know alot of players who take fruits and water only for a month or more just to scale through those tests, could remember some years back when a dude was on who wants to be a millionaire, the guy said he was narrowly dropped from U20 camp cuz he couldn't settle some officials but when Frank asked his real age the dude said he was 42, now tell me how long this dude will play before hanging his boots

Hawlahscho:
What I saw in another paper this morning is the team will get $20K per goal.

The guy that brought d paper to me has taken it, I would have snapped it and attach to this.

The same paper carried it that "Cech said he wants to be playing without helmet, that the helmet is affecting his hearing on d pitch"


I pity the guy's condition

Bro this what u saw

December is around the corner

to knock your head dey hungry me bad bad

We don hear you, you no dey tire??

lasisi69:
End time

osho

One of the numerous issues Nigeria education got is the rate of mushroom universities producing half baked graduates who keep littering the employment market.

KomradeKorsche:
Negative Change

Everyone knows the university was awarded rights because of GEJ's second term ambition, it's better to have few but quality institutions not universities that can't stand next to foreign secondary schools
The only people I pity here is the students who have wasted their money and time going to an unapproved school

olatunji21:
It is a False alarm sir... The Lawmakers are actually angry, the implementation of the TSA have almost if not incapacitated the MDAs. they barely have funds to maintain their offices talkmore of giving bribes to Legislators on Oversight function....

The wailers on this forum should be ashamed of themselves, when the TSA was implemented they all came here to tell us how it was an idea of GEJ but buhari is talking credit for it, fast forward few months later and one mental patient says its fraud and they here praising him jumping like a monkey who just saw banana. Even a common human knows a software can be manipulated, atleast its been discovered just few days or weeks after, this shows how strict and tight it is to steal from this administration unlike the previous were Billions took a taxi out of the federation account and never knew it way back home.

Really wished girls are made to barb their hair.... You go see different shapes, some head would even be shapeless. Na then you go appreciate the work of weavons

luvinhubby:
No light, dry taps, long queues of vehicles on filling stations buying fuel at over 100 naira per liter & Buhari's ministers are going to pocket N485 million annually when their principal is saying Nigeria is broke.

Buhariiiiii oo !!!

So you expect your taps to start running immediately they were sworn in Why not ask what the previous ministers who earned if not more than this did for 16years. You here throwing voice at people that haven't spent a full week in office...

watered:
Its only affecting "Yolobas"

Just like ur moniker your brain is watered