"He can be blunt, he can grow tired of people quickly, he's not a flexible man...and when you're his enemy, you're an enemy forever."

Those are Dutch legend Johan Cruyff's flaws as Graham Hunter explained on Off The Ball tonight.

But as Graham told the lads, those negatives are outweighed by the major positives that can now be seen at Barcelona and Ajax.

Indeed, he can be credited in part for his "subtle" role in Ajax's recent revival.

The Dutch club which had abandoned some of his principles, now have some of his ex-Ajax disciples like Frank De Boer (manager), Dennis Bergkamp (assistant coach) and Wim Jonk (Academy Director) running a club that has won the last three Dutch league titles.

Graham explained that Cruyff is involved with the club again from afar as Ajax try to recapture former glories.

"For years, [Cruyff] has been saying that the people who run the club don't understand that they have let the root wither and die for a long time. He was explicit that he wanted Wim Jonk, Dennis Bergkamp and the De Boers back at the club. He wanted people who knew the club and understand what made it great from top to bottom. He wanted people who knew how to spot and train players. It's a small version of everything that he installed at Barcelona."

As seen in this video, Cruyff is a tactical master and Joe Molloy got a first hand account of football under Cruyff when he spoke to former Ireland player Frank Stapleton:

"It's basically an art. The best coaches are the ones that do something during games to turn things around. His thinking of the game was probably ahead of everybody else. He was very intense. But he can upset people and that's why he's been in and out of Ajax three or four times. I think it's frustration that the people he is talking to don't understand what he's talking about. They don't have the vision that he has."