Ajax has no interest in Dean Henderson, general director Edwin van der Sar assures on Sunday evening Rondo. The Manchester United reserve keeper was associated with the Amsterdam club at the beginning of this week. Van der Sar indicates that rumors should not always be taken seriously, also because there are said to be agencies that facilitate certain reporting about players for a fee.
“I heard that nowadays you can hire desks for two thousand euros a month so that very nice messages about players are thrown into the world”, Van der Sar responds to a question about the alleged interest in Henderson. “On social media, so to speak. You are continuously linked to players, whether they come from South America or Eastern Europe. But no, this makes no sense,” the director refers to the interest in Henderson. Incidentally, ‘social media’ was not the source of the alleged interest. The first source to bring the news was the Manchester Evening News, a regional newspaper.
Ajax seems to lose André Onana in the summer and has a 38-year-old goalkeeper under the bar with Remko Pasveer. The club therefore seems to need new goalkeepers, although Van der Sar does not want to anticipate transfer activity yet. “I stopped when I was 40. Remko is 38”, responds Van der Sar, however. “Ultimately, you must indeed have two good keepers. Then you can have a young talent as a third keeper, who can smell it and can continue to grow. It will be interesting how we can solve that in the summer.”
Van der Sar finds the Onana situation ‘actually sad’. “With no fault of Ajax, he will soon leave the house on a free transfer. We have regularly sat down with him to extend his contract. That has come to nothing,” he indicates. “It hurts me personally and it will also hurt the club. We supported him with the arbitration case and then you expect something in return. André owes his development as a keeper to himself and I think Ajax has an important role in that too. part of wax.”