"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."