Ajax has reached an agreement with Sontje Hansen about a new contract, so you know Football International to report. The current commitment of the eighteen-year-old attacker will continue until the end of this season, but he will sign a contract on Tuesday afternoon that will bind him to the team from Amsterdam until mid-2023. It means that Hansen prefers a longer stay at Ajax over a switch to a top European club.

According to Football International were among others Manchester City, Juventus and Internazionale in the market for Hansen, but he opted for the ‘perspective’ in Amsterdam. The youth international has been playing in Ajax’s youth academy since 2013, after previously wearing the shirt of HSV Sport 1889, Zwaluwen’30 and Always Forward. Hansen made his debut in professional football on behalf of Jong Ajax in December of last year, where he played ten matches on behalf of the reserves team of the team from Amsterdam.

Five days after his debut in Young Ajax, Hansen also got his first playing minutes in the main squad, when trainer Erik ten Hag brought him in the lines shortly before the end in the TOTO KNVB Cup match against Telstar, which won 3-4. A week later he also made his Eredivisie debut in the match against ADO Den Haag (6-1 victory). Next season Hansen has to make his playing minutes in Young Ajax. Recently he had to contend with an ankle injury, but he has now fully recovered from it.

After Ryan Gravenberch, Devyne Rensch, Naci Ünüvar, Kenneth Taylor and Jurriën Timber, Hansen is the sixth youth player to sign a new contract with Ajax. The only one left to follow is Bryan Brobbey. The eighteen-year-old striker is still in possession of a contract with the team from Amsterdam until mid-2021 and trainer Erik ten Hag noted earlier that Marc Overmars is ‘busy’ with the contract extensions of the promising youth players.