On the final day of the transfer period, Ajax bought Borna Sosa through a German agent’s office, which owns shares in a private company of technical director Sven Mislintat. Ajax appears not to be aware of this. There may be a conflict of interest and the club has therefore started an investigation into the actions of the technical director, the club reports. NOS.
The news medium knows that research is in any case being conducted into the transfer of Sosa, who switched to Ajax on the final day of the last transfer period for an amount of approximately eight million euros. According to the NOS that transfer came about through a German business relationship, while Ajax was not aware of this. The director of football affairs reportedly also hoped to involve the business partner in a deal with Eduard Spertsyan, but that transfer fell through.
“It concerns a share transaction in Mislintat’s company Matchmetrics GmbH, a commercial data system for scouting football players,” the news site said. “He founded this company with four others, with shares divided equally. But five weeks after Mislintat started at Ajax, the status quo changed and the Ajax director became the largest shareholder with 35 percent.”
“At that time, June 26, 2023, a German management firm will also receive shares in Matchmetrics, according to documents from the German trade register,” the company continues. NOS. “On that day, a notary in Bielefeld makes official a construction in which the agent office AKA Global acquires interests in Mislintat’s company.”
“The football agency, run by Arthur Beck and Kerim Cerit, sees a loan of 161,000 euros converted into 3 percent of the shares. This makes them direct business relations of Mislintat, the man they would meet more than once this summer in the transfer business .”
“Mislintat spoke to Beck when he wanted to bring the midfielder Eduard Spertsyan, who is active in Russia, to Ajax, but the negotiation collapsed due to controversy. During the transfer of left back Borna Sosa, in the final hours of the transfer period, Beck and Mislintat were able to shake hands Sosa signed for five years and came to Amsterdam for 8 million euros.”
Although it has not yet been proven that Mislintat made direct money from the transfer, the deal involving Sosa is ‘a blow on all sides’. Ajax said in a response that an investigation is being launched and that action will be taken if there appears to be a conflict of interest.