Such is the importance of Wednesday night's Europa League final to Manchester United and the Jose Mourinho project, there is no sentiment allowed from even the lifelong Ajax fan in the camp.
Daley Blind and his family are Amsterdam football royalty, with father Danny captaining Ajax's 1995 Champions League-winning dream team of Edwin van der Sar, Frank Rijkaard and Patrick Kluivert, and Daley joining the club aged seven until he moved to Manchester in 2014.
But while the rest of the Ajax family stand united in Stockholm on Wednesday night — Van der Sar and '95 team-mate Marc Overmars are now directors and Kluivert's talented son Justin a player — Daley insists his Dad will be breaking ranks.