Ajax coach rubbishes his players

AJAX Cape Town coach Jan Pruijn has given a damning assessment of his squad: "You're not good enough".

Ajax lost 3-0 to Kaizer Chiefs on Tuesday night, their seventh defeat of the season, and Pruijn says they will consider bringing in "two or three" new players during the January transfer window.

He said the break in league action for the festive season and next year's Africa Cup of Nations could not have come fast enough because he is battling to find the right XI to execute his game plan.

"I said to the players after the Chiefs game: 'I respect you a lot, but after this performance we must admit that we are not good enough'," Pruijn said.

"If I look at the squad I have now, how many real winners do we have? How many real leaders are there? I think not too many.

"We must definitely strengthen, I know that, management knows that . they are maybe pushing even harder in that view than me. We will look for the right types of players and, if they are available, we will try to come to an agreement."

Pruijn would not put forward names but appears to have made a striker his top priority.