Luís Campos was present in the Estádio da Luz on Wednesday evening at the Champions League match between Benfica and Ajax (2-2), the Portuguese reported. A Bola† Mike Verweij reported Monday in the podcast kick off from The Telegraph already that Campos has expressed his interest to Ajax in becoming the new director of football affairs.
Campos is currently active as an advisor to Galatasaray and has built a good reputation in top football as sporting director of AS Monaco and Lille OSC and as a scout of Real Madrid. The 57-year-old Portuguese is one of the names mentioned as the successor to Overmars, who left at the beginning of February due to sexually transgressive behaviour. “We are not working very hard on it yet, because the need is not there yet,” Verweij said in the podcast kick off from The Telegraph†
According to A Bola Campos was present on Wednesday evening at Ajax’s Champions League match against Benfica in Lisbon. Verweij also considers the Portuguese a serious option. “Apparently a club like Ajax attracts such people. That man has a past at Real Madrid, AS Monaco and Lille, he has also done very well there. He really wants to do it, but I don’t think you can foreigner must go.”
Campos previously worked as sporting director at AS Monaco (2013 to 2016) and Lille OSC (2017 to 2020). At Monaco, he was responsible for the arrival of the likes of Radamel Falcao, João Moutinho, James Rodríguez, Fabinho, Anthony Martial, Bernardo Silva, Tiémoué Bakayoko, Geoffrey Kondogbia and Thomas Lemar, laying the foundation for the 2017 league title. brought players like Nicolas Pépé, Jonathan Ikoné, Renato Sanches, Victor Osimhen, Jonathan David and Sven Botman to Lille, before leaving in December 2020 after the club got new owners. Six months later, Lille also became champion of France, partly thanks to the work of Campos.