Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 07:11• Chris Meijer

In addition to Leeds United, Internazionale is also in the market for Nicolás Tagliafico, so you know ASH to report. The Spanish sports newspaper considers these two clubs, in addition to Atlético Madrid and Manchester City, who have been interested for some time, to be interested in the 28-year-old wing defender of Ajax. ASH writes that the Amsterdammers wish to keep an amount of around fifteen million euros to Tagliafico.

Tagliafico extended his contract with Ajax in December until mid-2022 for one year and at the time there were already reports from Italy that an agreement had been made about a substantial discount on the then applied asking price of 25 million euros. “I cannot go into specific amounts, but Ajax will not comply with such a request”, his agent Ricardo Schlieper reacted at the time. ASH knows, however, that Ajax now uses a relatively soft asking price, which is part of the agreements that have been made with Tagliafico’s entourage.

Interest in Tagliafico is now slowly but surely loosening up. Valentijn Driessen said recently in the program Veronica Inside all that Leeds United was in the market for the Argentinian fullback. Manchester City was according to ASH interested last summer, but due to Oleksandr Zinchenko staying on, he saw no room to bring in Tagliafico. The same more or less applies to Atlético Madrid, which targeted the Ajax player before Renan Lodi was brought in. However, the leader of LaLiga would now like to get a new left back next summer.

There would be more interest from Italy, also because Tagliafico has an Italian passport and is therefore an interesting target for the Serie A clubs. Inter is currently the only specifically named candidate. Tagliafico has an agreement with director of football affairs Marc Overmars that Ajax will in principle cooperate in a transfer to a top competition. Made in September The Telegraph announced that Tagliafico rejected a transfer to Bayer Leverkusen last summer. The South American has been playing for Ajax since January 2018 and has played for the team from Amsterdam in 135 official matches so far.

When it comes to that, Ajax already has a successor in mind. Johan Derksen replied on Friday evening Veronica Inside that the team from Amsterdam, together with PSV, are after Patrick van Aanholt. The thirty-year-old left back has an expiring contract at Crystal Palace. “There is a chance that he will be sold to Spain, Italy or maybe Leeds,” said Derksen about Tagliafico.