The transition from Quincy Promes to Spartak Moscow seems like a matter of time after ESPN Wednesday morning announced that the attacker is leaving Ajax immediately for a return to his old club. Once the signatures have been placed, Promes will be under contract with Spartak until the summer of 2024, which will transfer a fixed transfer fee of 8.5 million euros to Amsterdam, which can amount to 11 million euros through bonuses. Trainer Erik ten Hag is still a small blow at the press conference in the run-up to the Europa League match with Lille OSC.
“It is still in the making, the signatures have yet to be signed. It seems that it will be finalized, but a deal is only a deal when the signatures have been put”, Ten Hag said at the press conference in the run-up to the return of the sixteenth final of the Europa League against Lille OSC. “Quincy is a great player and I have a great past with him. He did a fantastic job here last year. I wish him this step, it is a good step for him: should it continue. But we assume that. “
Promes was not sure of a base place under Ten Hag this season and was discredited after he was arrested in connection with a stabbing incident. In recent weeks he was no longer part of the match selection, so the home match against Willem II (3-1 win) probably was his last game in Amsterdam service. “We were actually not really open to it, with all the matches we have,” Ten Hag announced on Wednesday afternoon during the press conference in the run-up to the Europa League game with Lille OSC. “In the end we found an alternative (with Oussama Idrissi, ed.) And made the choice to cooperate.”
“Quincy is a good boy, a good player. We had a good time, of course I also played with him at FC Twente. We will certainly miss him”, Dusan Tadic responds in conversation with ESPN at the departure of Promes. For the 29-year-old attacker, a contract of eighteen months at Ajax comes to an end. In it, the attacker played 53 games, in which he scored 22 times and delivered 6 assists.
Ajax took over the winger from Sevilla in the summer of 2019 for an amount of 15.7 million euros. At Spartak, Promes returns to the old nest. In his first period, between 2014 and 2018, he captured the Russian league title and the Super Cup. In addition, the 47-time international of the Dutch national team was named Player of the Year in Russia in 2017. Earlier in his career, the brand-new acquisition of Spartak was under contract with FC Twente and Go Ahead Eagles. His contract with Ajax continued for more than three seasons.