- Jan 6, 2013
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I think it's fine putting this in here. Justin Kluivert has said that we were in negotiations with Ajax last summer to include him in the Sanchez deal and he didn't even know until the last minute and didn't want to move. Apparently the deal proposed was a two-year loan back (I think it's a response with quotes from Overmars) worth €20m. I've copied the relevant bits.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/jus...t-helemaal-niet-te-wachten-op-geld-~b7659453/
Justin Kluivert (19) tells his story: 'I was not waiting for money at all'
Justin Kluivert (19) will not renew his contract with Ajax this summer. Too much has happened for that. Lack of trust. The reduced atmosphere in the selection. An attempt to sell him to Tottenham Hotspur without the knowledge. Moreover, Kluivert considers the future perspective uncertain.
Kluivert heard through Raiola that he was transferred in the beginning of the season in a kind of tying to Tottenham Hotspur, together with Davinson Sánchez. Sanchez for 45 million, Kluivert for 20. But he did not want to go to Tottenham. "I heard that at the last minute. That says nothing about Ajax, but about the people in the club. Somewhere it was laughing. You see how the football world works. If you get a little higher, it looks like a game. They do what they want. I now get that feeling again: they do what they want. '
He talks about the negotiations in the beginning of the season, although he was not personally present. "I had two years contract and thought: do it. My idea was to stay. But then it turns out that it is different. As a youth soccer player you have none of that. As a boy, everything is still fun. Have a nice football on Saturday. As soon as you get higher, it is often about everything but football, but about peripheral issues. '
WRITTEN REACTION AJAX:
Ajax's written response to Ajax's director of players 'policy on the attempted sale of Justin Kluivert to Tottenham Hotspur:' In the conversations with Spurs about Sánchez there was a later discussion about Justin. Spurs's proposal was that he would then play in Amsterdam for another two years and that he would then go to Spurs. We did not go further on that, because we wanted to renew the contract with Justin. Just like we want to. "
https://www.volkskrant.nl/sport/jus...t-helemaal-niet-te-wachten-op-geld-~b7659453/
Justin Kluivert (19) tells his story: 'I was not waiting for money at all'
Justin Kluivert (19) will not renew his contract with Ajax this summer. Too much has happened for that. Lack of trust. The reduced atmosphere in the selection. An attempt to sell him to Tottenham Hotspur without the knowledge. Moreover, Kluivert considers the future perspective uncertain.
Kluivert heard through Raiola that he was transferred in the beginning of the season in a kind of tying to Tottenham Hotspur, together with Davinson Sánchez. Sanchez for 45 million, Kluivert for 20. But he did not want to go to Tottenham. "I heard that at the last minute. That says nothing about Ajax, but about the people in the club. Somewhere it was laughing. You see how the football world works. If you get a little higher, it looks like a game. They do what they want. I now get that feeling again: they do what they want. '
He talks about the negotiations in the beginning of the season, although he was not personally present. "I had two years contract and thought: do it. My idea was to stay. But then it turns out that it is different. As a youth soccer player you have none of that. As a boy, everything is still fun. Have a nice football on Saturday. As soon as you get higher, it is often about everything but football, but about peripheral issues. '
WRITTEN REACTION AJAX:
Ajax's written response to Ajax's director of players 'policy on the attempted sale of Justin Kluivert to Tottenham Hotspur:' In the conversations with Spurs about Sánchez there was a later discussion about Justin. Spurs's proposal was that he would then play in Amsterdam for another two years and that he would then go to Spurs. We did not go further on that, because we wanted to renew the contract with Justin. Just like we want to. "