Ajax seems to be intensifying the interest in Julián Álvarez. The Argentine daily newspaper ole knows to report that director of football affairs Marc Overmars has a conversation in Amsterdam this week with Fernando Hidalgo, the agent of the attacker of River Plate. However, there is fierce competition from Aston Villa for the signature of lvarez, who is with the Argentine top club until December 31, 2022.
In addition to Ajax, Hidalgo will soon also talk to a delegation from Aston Villa. The English are already preparing a bid of around eighteen million euros for the 21-year-old right winger, who reportedly has a 25 million euro escape clause in his current contract with River Plate. Álvarez is currently active with Argentina in the Copa América, although national coach Lionel Scaloni has so far only included him in the match selection for the group match with Paraguay (1-0 win). The winger, coveted by Ajax, however, remained on the bench for ninety minutes.
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The River Plate attacker was already mentioned at Ajax in March.
ole thinks that the approximately eighteen million euros that Aston Villa wants to deposit comes close to the asking price that River Plate currently uses. On the other hand, it is thought that Ajax has a good chance because of the earlier signing of Argentine players such as Nicolás Tagliafico and Lisandro Martínez. Álvarez was crowned assist king of the Argentine SuperLiga last season. The right winger enabled a teammate of River Plate to score a total of six times.
The Argentine Medium TNT Sports already reported in March that Álvarez had appeared on Ajax’s radar. Manchester City, Real Sociedad and Valencia were also put forward three months ago as candidates to bring the young attacker to Europe. In 2019, the young striker belonged according to Goal still one of the fifty greatest talents in the world. The talent list from two years ago also featured the names of Mohamed Ihattaren, Ryan Gravenberch and Ki-Jana Hoever. He now stands on 16 goals and 17 assists in 69 appearances in the shirt of River Plate.
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