Ajax is betting on the sale of Lassina Traoré. The Telegraph knows that several clubs have officially reported to the Amsterdammers, who are demanding ten million euros for the twenty-year-old striker. Among the interested clubs are Lokomotiv Moscow and Atalanta, but Traoré hopes for a better option.
Traoré was a basic player at Ajax at the beginning of the season, but gradually fell deeper and deeper into the pecking order during the year. The center attacker from Burkina Faso has only been detained for one year and Marc Overmars feels the urgency to sell him. “Ajax is in the process of selling Traoré”, says Mike Verweij in the podcast Kick-Off from his newspaper. “Lokomotiv Moscow has officially reported and Atalanta too. He played very well against that in the Champions League (and scored twice, ed.). So I can imagine that. He put those clubs in the waiting room, because there are several clubs. “
Despite Traoré’s short-term contract, the Amsterdammers want to make huge cash. “Ajax hopes to receive an amount of more than ten million euros for him, possibly with bonuses”, says Verweij. “That is paid for strikers. Especially when English hijackers come on the coast. But on the other hand: if you do not draft a player at all, and he only has one year contract, it might be a bit much. But it The story also goes that Overmars is far enough to sell Kjell Scherpen to Brighton & Hove Albion for five million euros, then you are a good seller. “
Traoré first had to give up his place in the striker to Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. In January, Sébastien Haller was recruited as the first option in the point of the attack and since then Traoré has had to put up with Brian Brobbey as well. In total, Traoré played eighteen official games in the first, in which he scored eight times and gave eight assists. In addition, he played eleven times in the Kitchen Champion Division for Young Ajax, adding two goals and one assist to his total.
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