Ajax and Edson Álvarez have expressed the intention to continue together longer, reports The Telegraph. Both sides are betting on a contract until the summer of 2025. The newspaper writes that the Mexican international will be rewarded for his loyalty after he was coveted by Stade Rennes last summer. His current contract expires in mid-2024.
According to reports, both parties will continue to discuss a new agreement in the short term. Last summer, Stade Rennes wanted to bring in the 23-year-old controlling midfielder. The Ligue 1 club made an opening offer of eighteen million euros and seemed willing to increase that amount to twenty million, bonuses and a percentage of resale. The departure of Álvarez was unmentionable for director of player affairs Marc Overmars. The offer was refused and the regular base player under Erik ten Hag resigned himself to that.
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Álvarez had a difficult start at Ajax. In his initial period, after he was taken over from Club América in the summer of 2019 for fifteen million euros, he hardly got to play and was far removed from his girlfriend Sofia and daughter Valentina in the Netherlands, because their residence permits were not in order. . The paperwork has been in order for a long time and Álvarez conquered a starting place last season. He currently stands on 73 official matches for Ajax in all competitions, in which he scored 6 times.
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Last Monday, in the run-up to the Champions League match between Ajax and Borussia Dortmund (4-0), Ten Hag spoke highly of Álvarez, whose market value was Transfermarkt is estimated at seventeen million euros. “Edson’s development is very good. He brings a lot to the team from a positional perspective, takes care of the defensive organization and also plays football better and better. The first assumptions and advancing the game are getting better and better for him. He is making great strides. With the Lisandro Martínez, Jurriën Timber and Alvarez block, we concede very few goals,” said the trainer.