Dutch Shocker

Last updated : 19 July 2010 By Kevin Markey
It had been felt Fulham could not compete with Jol's £2m wages at Ajax, but Cottagers chairman Mohamed Al Fayed has made an offer the 54-year-old former Tottenham boss could not resist, including supplying the finance to compete for new players, while Ajax are considering selling two of their World Cup stars, Luis Suarez and Gregory van der Wiel.

"No one here can understand how you leave Ajax for a club like Fulham," a source in Holland told the Mail on Sunday. "It is shocking to us. We recognise the English club want to progress, we accept they were Europa League finalists and we know they are right that Jol can maintain their run of success.

"But Ajax are a club with a reputation as one of Europe's greatest, past and present and in the future. To walk away from such a club at such a time is an extraordinary decision."