According to Catalan newspaper ‘Sport’ Ajax and Barcelona are in talks about a partnership.
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The two clubs have had a great relationship since Johan Cruijff moved to the Catalan giants and recently worked together over the deal that sees Frenkie de Jong move to Barcelona this summer.
According to Sport a partnership is being explored that would see Ajax receive players on loan from Barcelona regularly. The Spanish giants see Ajax as the perfect place for their young players or recent recruits from South America to learn their trade before breaking into their first-team.
Barcelona would want in return first refusal on any of the best young talents or players at Ajax.
Sport also adds that talks are ongoing over the transfer of Matthijs de Ligt. Juventus are still in the running for the centre-back but Barcelona are confident he wants to join his friend De Jong at the club and have an offer of €60 million plus bonuses ready to submit.
The Ajax partnership would be the best decision for young players from both teams! Let’s Keep It that way!
perfect match as there is little or no difference in Barcelona and Ajax philosophy
Good deal, but am worried Velverde is slowly deviating from the Barca traditional style of eventually. If that issue is not sorted, the post Messi era would be a huge disaster, and also players from Ayax would still find it difficult to fit in.
Ridiculous!
What are Ajax to be reduced to a Champions League Barcelona B Team?
Ajax can have a good relationship with them without this type of thing.
It should stand on its own two feet, not be dependent on another team.
in my opinion Ajax board shouldn’t accept this partnership
-firstly because Ajax academy is the priority for Ajax first team not barca’s academy
-secondly this is disrespecting.. Ajax is a great team with a great history .. they are not like Vitesse
-The final reason is that the team is going to be an experiment field for barcelona’s signings if this player did well barca is going to take him if not he will be thrown away to Ajax team to get rid of him
this deal is surely has benfits for barcelona more than ajax
Very bad idea.
This will mean that Ajax will always be playing second fiddle to Barcelona.
Their academy is one of the best in the world. Why would they foster talent for another club?
Dumb idea!
Ajax’s economic model is based largely upon selling players at a profit. For them to enter into an agreement under which Barcelona gets “first right of refusal” on players is completely ludicrous. It would severely hamper their ability to negotiate the best transfer price on players they sell.
This makes zero business sense and there’s no way a publicly traded company like Ajax would ever handcuff itself with a deal like this. Story sounds completely fabricated.
Ajax to become Barca feeder club??