Friday, October 8, 2021 at 7:02 PM• Dominic Mostert • Last update: 19:04

According to Valentijn Driessen, Ajax would be wise to work on the return of Jasper Cillessen. In the podcast Kick-Off by The Telegraph the football chief responds with a wholehearted ‘agree’ to the statement that Ajax must bring in the keeper of Valencia as soon as possible, now that Maarten Stekelenburg has been eliminated for the rest of the season due to an injury. However, he acknowledges that it will be difficult to realize a transfer.

Remko Pasveer is currently Ajax’s first keeper. The club can again have the currently suspended André Onana from November 4. Because the Cameroonian will probably not renew his expiring contract, it remains to be seen whether he will return under the bar immediately. “They have to act quickly in the transfer market if they don’t want to put Onana under the bar from November 4,” Driessen said. “Onana is a great keeper. He gets his salary every month, so you really just have to put him on target. Regardless of what the technical director thinks. You pay that boy to be an Ajax goalkeeper.”

The journalist can understand Ajax’s chagrin about Onana’s contract situation. However, the club has to get over it in his eyes. “You didn’t pay anything for him when he came (a training fee of allegedly 150 thousand euros, ed.). In the end, you had a lot of fun with him. I would rather focus on that than not have a transfer fee for him. can ask.” Driessen would in any case join Onana under the bar until January. “Certainly now, with the knowledge of Stekelenburg’s injury, you just have to bring him in.”

“Then you can think in the winter: we sell it, then we get something for it. Then you can go get Jasper Cillessen, for example. That is an excellent alternative, although I think it is very difficult to pick up. at Valencia simply under the bar and so you will have to dig deep into your pockets. The best would simply be to keep Onana until the end of the season,” said Driessen, who indicates that Onana is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe and that a useful alternative ‘is not walking around in Amsterdam’. “It seems clear to me that you are doing something with this situation. I will not forget that a few years ago Kostas Lamprou had to come in and that Heerenveen scored four or five times (it became 4-4, ed.). They did not know then. how quickly they had to pick up a keeper.”