“Ajax will have handed it over to PSV—what kind of feeling will they be sitting with in the Amsterdam office now?”

While the various PSV players, as well as the Feyenoord players, have long been celebrating their vacation in full swing, they are busy in Amsterdam with the preparations for the final round of the play-offs for the Conference League.

In the first season without a figurehead and captain Luuk de Jong, nothing seemed to go wrong all season when it came to the race for the league title. And without any trouble at all, an unprecedented number of headed goals was scored. 'PSV have now made 25 headed goals, a record for an Eredivisie club in a single season (tracked since 1999/2000. It's also more goals than Almere City finished with last season (23),' data analyst Bart Frouws already calculated.

It will be a short holiday for the Ajax men, certainly for the players who also have the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada ahead of them. In any case, in Amsterdam one looks on with regret at how PSV and Feyenoord can still look forward to the Champions League millions.

At De Telegraaf they show no mercy with Ajax the day before the match against FC Utrecht. 'What kind of feeling will they now be sitting with at the office in Amsterdam, you think? Ajax's fate earlier lay in the hands of PSV,' they point to the most recent league round against FC Twente.

'This will cost a lot of money if they play Conference League later', comments on the possible participation of Ajax in the third European competition. Ajax and FC Utrecht play on Sunday afternoon at 12:15 p.m. in Volendam for a place in the second qualifying round of the Conference League. PSV and Feyenoord are both placed directly for the group stage of the Champions League. The financial differences between the clubs will grow and grow in this way.