Francesco Farioli has resigned from his post as Ajax manager, citing a difference in "vision" and "timeframes" for club's goals.

Head coach Francesco Farioli has left Ajax in the wake of an end-of-season collapse that cost them the Eredivisie title.Ajax were top of the Dutch top flight with a nine-point lead with seven games to go but on Sunday ended up finishing a point behind champions PSV Eindhoven.

Francesco Farioli resigned as coach of Dutch giants Ajax on Monday, a day after the crushing disappointment of finishing runners-up in the title race.Kroes said the abrupt departure of Farioli -- the first non-Dutch coach at Ajax since Dane Morten Olsen in 1998 -- posed all sorts of problems.