Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 11:33 PM• Mart Oude Nijeweeme • Last update: 23:33

Johan Derksen has Tuesday evening with VI Today expressed his dismay at the situation surrounding Ryan Gravenberch. The Ajax midfielder, who will run out of his contract next summer, does not seem to heed the club’s intention to extend his contract. While Bayern Munich is mentioned as a possible new destination, Derksen once again expresses his dissatisfaction with the working method of agent Mino Raiola.

Bayern Munich are following the situation around Gravenberch with above-average interest. The Germans like to see the midfielder come. Sports1 stresses, however, that there is still a long way to go before an agreement can be reached. The reason is given, among other things, that Raiola is currently struggling with health problems. The striking advocate was transferred to intensive care at a Milan hospital a month ago. Raiola would have a lung disease. He was also hospitalized a few weeks earlier.

The situation around Gravenberch was also discussed by the gentlemen of VI Today discussed. “Raiola can sell any player. You could almost say that he can sell shit,” said Derksen. “He drives these boys completely crazy. This boy is nineteen years old, has just entered the first team of Ajax. He is doing very well, but he has been made so crazy with money and top clubs by Raiola. Can you help that boy with that? A boy of nineteen, he just has to play at Ajax for two more years before he has the status to go to a top club. It’s not the case that he dies of poverty that he has to lose sleep over the energy bill?”

Gravenberch himself indicated that he did not want to leave for free. “It is with my agent and my father,” he says in the General Newspaper† “I do not know whether I will leave next summer. What I do know for sure is that I will not leave if Ajax does not earn anything from me. I have played here all my youth. Ajax has always been good to me. club. Then I cannot afford to leave on a free transfer. That will not happen. On the other hand, it is not bad to step out of your comfort zone. A different competition, different football, different life, different people to but you could also do that at 22, for example.”