Despite his unprecedented goal production, Ajax must cooperate with the right amount in the departure of Sébastien Haller, according to Mike Verweij of The Telegraph. The journalist states that the team from Amsterdam must ‘immediately tie a knot’ around the 27-year-old striker with an offer of at least forty million euros.
Ajax paid 22.5 million euros for Haller in January of this year. The attacker is co-top scorer in the Champions League with nine goals and has also made nine in the Eredivisie this season. Yet Verweij is not fully convinced of the Ivorian international. “I think if Ajax can sell Haller for much more than he cost, the most expensive purchase ever, they should sell him immediately,” the Ajax watcher said in the podcast. kick off. “I mean: imagine a crazy Premier League club offering forty or fifty million euros, immediately tie it up and go! I think so.”
Valentijn Driessen is not devastated by Haller either, but thinks differently than his colleague. “I wouldn’t let him go for 40 million euros,” Driessen said. “Although you take 15 million euros (in fact 17.5 million euros, ed.) profit, but you also have to retrieve something else. Look, if you now had a whole row of strikers that you can pick up and then do the same, but of course they don’t walk around. You have to watch out for that. You shouldn’t get rid of a striker too quickly.”
Verweij thinks that few clubs are interested in Haller at all. “I think the Premier League is going to be very difficult. He did a great job at Eintracht Frankfurt, of course, but West Ham United makes you wonder if that was a good club for him. If he plays far from goal, then of course that is more difficult than when he plays in a very dominant team like Ajax.So I think the Premier League is not very interested in Haller.On the other hand, if you can provide such statistics in the Champions League.. Driessen is not convinced by those statistics. “He’s not fast at all, so you really have to get to the top of the Premier League. His assumptions are not your thing. That was also against Besiktas, then he had a dramatic assumption, gone chance.”
The player who represents the most value at Ajax is probably to the right of Haller in the usual starting line-up. “I would keep Antony for a while,” Verweij says about him. Ajax previously turned down a huge offer from China for David Neres and then failed to sell the Brazilian. Nevertheless, Verweij thinks that such a scenario with Antony is less obvious. “I rate Antony higher than Neres. That’s easy to say now, because Neres is no longer so good. But I think Antony is better at his peak now than Neres was at his peak.”