Max de Waal has extended his contract with Ajax. The nineteen-year-old striker has now been fixed for a year longer and has signed a contract until 2024. The team from Amsterdam is renting out De Waal for the rest of the season to PEC Zwolle, which is diligently looking for scoring ability. Earlier, the bottom of the Eredivisie already secured the services of Oussama Darfalou.
De Waal played for Jong Ajax during the first half of the season, which entered the winter break as number five in the Kitchen Champion Division. De Waal, who can also play as a midfielder, came into action in all twenty competition matches and scored nine times. He thus crowned himself club top scorer at Jong Ajax. The Amsterdammers think that it is better for the development of De Waal to play at Eredivisie level than another six months in the Keuken Kampioen Division.
“For me, this temporary switch to PEC Zwolle comes at a wonderful time,” says De Waal on the PEC Zwolle website. “After having just extended my contract with Ajax, the opportunity presented itself through PEC to show it for the first time in the Eredivisie. That is something I have worked hard for all these years and am looking forward to it. It is clear to me.” The club and supporters can assume that I will give everything to make it a wonderful second half of the season together. “
Technical manager Mike Willems is also pleased with the arrival of the Ajax player. “It is great that in the first days of the new year, in addition to Oussama Darfalou, we also added Max de Waal to the selection. These players give us an attacking impulse. Max is a physically strong and technical attacker who leads the battle. In the conversations we had, he made an extremely eager impression to now also show himself in the Eredivisie.”
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