Ajax’s players should perhaps be forced to hand over their mobile phones before Wednesday’s Champions League tie at Barcelona so they do not act like overawed schoolboys, according to defender Niklas Moisander.

“I thought it a bit awkward last year that before a match against Real Madrid the players were taking pictures and video clips of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium,” he told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

“You can’t do that. Of course we should be allowed to enjoy the atmosphere but you must not stand there like schoolkids.”