Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 11:38 AM• Mart Oude Nijeweeme • Last update: 11:39

Now that Jay Gorter has equaled Tonnie van Leeuwen’s ancient record as the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets in professional football, interest in the Go Ahead Eagles goalkeeper is on the rise. Where the keeper could already count on interest from FC Groningen, the name of Ajax is also increasingly common. A return to Amsterdam sees the closing point, he says in an interview with Football International.

The 3-0 victory over Almere City FC last Saturday meant the 23rd for Gorter and Go Ahead clean sheet of the season, kicking Van Leeuwen’s record from the 1970/71 season out of the books. And so his name is increasingly mentioned at clubs from the Eredivisie, including Ajax, where Gorter could follow the same route when Kjell Scherpen leaves. “I will not deny that I have heard it. To be honest, I would think it was a very nice step. I am young and it is really not the case that I have to keep in the Eredivisie at all costs,” says Gorter.

A transfer to Ajax would mean a return for Gorter to the club where he attended the youth academy between 2010 and 2014. “I would certainly fit in playing football. In today’s top football, I think, it is seventy percent real goalkeeping work and thirty percent playing football. I dare say that in that area I belong to the best goalkeepers in the Netherlands. really because of Ajax. There it happened that you could leave your gloves inside and only participate in the position games. That helped me a lot “, Gorter is grateful to Ajax.

“At Go Ahead I am also often decisive in the build-up, that’s even more of a keeper at Ajax”, Gorter continues. The goalkeeper is only working on his second season at Go Ahead, which took him over from AZ in 2019. “I have no fear of playing in large spaces. Even when I get too short a back pass, I like to play a striker in order to create a new situation for the build-up. Goalkeepers are becoming increasingly important in the build-up. . “

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