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Chapter 307 Ajax's sincerity

When Yang Yang and Raiola arrived at the Amsterdam Arena, reporters who had already received the news were waiting outside.

The professional league is like that.

The team just won the championship yesterday, celebrated, and carnivaled, but then we should care about the top priority.

For Ajax, whether Yang Yang can be kept is the top priority this summer.

Nothing is more important than Yang Yang's contract renewal.

Raiola drove the car directly into the internal parking lot, and all media reporters were blocked.

Although they took photos of Yang Yang and his agent appearing at the Amsterdam Arena, it is difficult to know the details of the negotiations between the two parties and whether an agreement can be reached.

It is foreseeable that in the next period of time, the renewal and transfer of Yang Yang will become a hot topic in the Netherlands and even the world's major football media.

The front desk of the office had received the news a long time ago, and greeted Yang Yang from a distance, and welcomed the two of them into the conference room.

This time, in addition to Ajax's director in charge of the technical department and transfer negotiations, Ali Van Eden, club chairman Michael van Prager, and directors in charge of financial management will be present at the meeting.

To Yang Yang's surprise, the head coach of the first team, Ronald Koeman, was also among them.

"Good morning, boss!" Yang Yang stretched out his hand to Ronald Koeman from a distance.

Then he shook hands with the chairman and directors one after another, exchanging polite greetings for a while.

After the female assistant brought up the hot drink and closed the door and exited, both parties began to get down to business.

In this meeting, Ajax director Ali Van Eden played the leading role. He first thanked Yang Yang for his contribution to the team in the past two seasons, and believed that he was already the most important core player of the team. The whole club sincerely hoped that Yang Yang could stay in the team and continue to grow and develop.

"A very important part of the reason why we restructured last season was to improve our financial situation, and this season we have improved significantly in terms of finances, which also allows us to spend more and more abundant funds to invest in the strengthening and upgrading of the team."

With that said, Ali Van Eiden handed Yang Yang a copy of the club's transfer and signings plan for this summer.

"Our board of directors has basically reached an agreement that next season's UEFA Champions League will be the most important core battlefield of our team. In order to achieve better results in this battlefield and strive to qualify from the group stage again, we will do our best to retain all the main players of the current first team this summer."

Yang Yang was somewhat surprised after hearing Ali van Eyden's words.

Keep all the main players in the team?
In other words, Ajax will not sell the main star this summer?
I have to say that this is indeed a very good proposal, because Yang Yang knows very well that the teammates of this team are still very capable, and they are very young and have made great progress.

But Yang Yang still kept an eye on it, and turned to look at Ronald Koeman.

Compared with directors, he is more willing to trust the head coach.

Ronald Koeman also nodded towards Yang Yang, acquiescing to what Ali van Eyden said, and it seemed that he himself was a participant in this plan, otherwise he would not be able to attend today's meeting.

And it is likely that Ajax further expanded his head coach authority in order to keep him in office.

Yang Yang opened up the transfer plan handed over by Ali Van Eden, which mainly mentioned that what Ajax urgently wants to strengthen is the midfielder, and it is best to be a player with a relatively balanced offense and defense.

The current midfielder is Garasek and De Jong partnering with double midfielders, and Sneijder plays forward alone, but the problem with this combination is that the defense is very good, but the offense is not strong enough.

Sneijder's organizational ability is quite good, and his offensive ability is excellent. In this case, it is indeed too tiring for him to support the midfield alone, and he can even be said to be unable to do what he wants in many cases.

Pienaar played well at the left winger position. His organization and passing of the ball are very good. If he is pulled back to the middle of the midfield, partnered with Sneijder, and supplemented by a defensive midfielder, the team's creativity is enough, but the defense is a bit weak.

To put it bluntly, Ajax is a Dutch team that insists on offensive football. Although Ronald Koeman is known for training defense, there will always be no shortage of offensive coaches in the Ajax team, such as Luther Carroll.

Before, Yang Yang received news that Ajax is said to have taken a fancy to Timoshchuk of Shakhtar Donetsk and Dezeu of Going Eagles of Dutch second team, but the former needs to spend a lot of money, even more than 500 million euros.

This is clearly beyond Ajax's transfer budget.

The Eredivisie giants really want to sign in, but it is still unavoidable for the small teams to plan carefully, and they still want to spend a small amount of money to do big things, which is not impossible.

For example, Maicon didn't spend much money at the beginning, but it turns out that after the introduction and a little training, Maicon is now the main player on the right side of Ajax and has performed quite well.

The player De Zeuu performed well. He was very good in the Dutch second league last season. He has also attracted the attention of many domestic teams in the Netherlands. He is 22 years old and is also very suitable for Ajax's positioning.

This Dutch native midfielder is definitely a type of high quality and low price, and at the same time knows the basics.

In addition to Dezeu, there is another candidate player in this plan, that is, an Ivorian midfielder named Yaya Toure, who plays for Metallurgical Donetsk in Ukraine, is also 22 years old this year.

According to Ajax's scouting report, this player came to Europe from Côte d'Ivoire in [-]. He first played for Beveren in the Belgian Second Division.

In the summer of 180, he transferred from Beveren to Metallurgical Donetsk in Ukraine for [-] million euros. This was a big leap in his career, because Metallurgical Donetsk could play in the UEFA Cup, but they only stopped in the first round and were eliminated by Lazio [-]-[-] in both rounds.

But in those two games, Yaya Toure left a good impression on people. In addition, in the subsequent leagues, he showed very good strength. He can be competent in many different positions such as front midfielder, midfielder, back midfielder, and even central defender. He is a very comprehensive player.

Due to the poor performance of Metallurgical Donetsk this season, Yaya Toure also moved to leave the team.

This player was spotted by Ajax's scouts when they inspected Timoshchuk of Shakhtar Donetsk, but Metallurgical Donetsk's asking price is not low, and Ajax does not know enough about this player. The only thing that is certain is that his physical fitness and height are very outstanding.

Dezeu's height is only 1.7 meters 1.8, but Yaya Toure is as high as [-] meters [-], and has the physical fitness of an African player, which is currently seriously lacking in Ajax.

But judging from the signing plan, Ajax's first choice is still Dezeu.

The reason is simple. This player is more familiar with the Eredivisie and his value is relatively lower. Ajax is also very optimistic about him and believes that he can play an important role in the team.

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After reading the entire transfer plan, Yang Yang also understood what the management meant.

Introduce a powerful midfielder, further strengthen the team's midfield control, improve the team's offensive firepower in the frontcourt, and continue to build the team's offensive combination around Yang Yang as the core.

The investment in the transfer market will not be too large, try to control it between 300 million and 500 million euros, but many players in the team will renew their contracts, including Pienaar, Sneijder and Yang Yang.

Among them, the focus of contract renewal is Yang Yang.

When Yang Yang was reviewing the transfer plan, Ali Van Eden also expressed the sincerity of the club on the issue of contract renewal, that is, the team is willing to double Yang Yang's salary on the current basis.

The after-tax weekly salary of [-] euros has reached the original standard of Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic.

After the new round of contract extensions, only Sneijder can reach the same salary level as Yang Yang, and other players will inevitably be slightly inferior, which means that Yang Yang will become the number one star of Ajax.

In addition, appearance bonuses, goal bonuses and assist bonuses, as well as the team's performance bonuses, will all be greatly improved on the existing basis. After playing a full game, Yang Yang's income will be much higher than it is now.

In addition to Ali Van Eiden, club chairman Michael van Prager also gave the club's commitment, saying that if Yang Yang is willing to stay in the team, the team will do its best to train him, and use all resources to ensure his position and tactical role in the team, so as to ensure that he can continue his outstanding performance in the new season.

It should be said that after listening to the chips offered by Ajax, Yang Yang really felt the sincerity.

But he doesn't feel that the club is at a disadvantage. The reason is very simple. As long as Yang Yang performs well in the new season, the club will get higher income when he sells him in the future.

According to the current valuation of Yang Yang by the outside world, the lowest price has reached 500 million euros, and everyone knows that it is absolutely impossible to persuade Ajax to sell him at this price.

For these, Yang Yang also knew, but he didn't point it out. Raiola was responsible for the whole process.

After talking for more than an hour, the two sides fully exchanged each other's opinions. Neither Yang Yang nor Raiola made a clear statement, and the two sides quickly ended the first negotiation.

After seeing off Yang Yang and Raiola, Ali Van Eyden shook his head and sighed.

"This Italian vampire is not easy to deal with."

If it was just Yang Yang alone, the club would understand him with affection and reason, and it would not be too difficult to convince him, but with the addition of Raiola, the situation would be much more complicated.

And it can be seen that Yang Yang still trusts Raiola a lot.

But in any case, they have to continue to deal with Raiola.

Renewing Yang Yang is Ajax's top priority this summer.

(End of this chapter)