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Mark Walker

Alfred Schreuder echoes Rangers boss Gio's controversial Champions League claim as Ajax manager makes painful admission

Ajax boss Alfred Schreuder reckons it's straight shootout with Rangers for a Europa League spot after admitting Napoli and Liverpool are streets ahead.

Schreuder appeared to echo Giovanni van Bronckhorst 's controversial sentiment that his side couldn't compete with the Champions League elite after suffering their own bruising defeat in Amsterdam last month. On Tuesday night, Ajax were smashed 6-1 by Napoli while Rangers went down 2-0 to a dominant Liverpool at Anfield.

And the Eredivisie club's manager reckons it's almost impossible to compete with both the Italians and Anfield giants - mirroring what Van Bronckhorst said, to much criticism, about going head-to-head with the very best. After the game, Schreuder told Dutch TV: "If you look at Napoli and Liverpool, you see that they are clubs who are too much for us. We are not good enough as a team at the moment. We have a lot of good players, but we are not good enough as a team. I can point to the players sold, but that doesn't matter now.

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