Valentijn Driessen no longer counts on a contract extension of Ryan Gravenberch at Ajax. On Sunday evening, agent Mino Raiola added Studio Football indicated that there is “no talk at the moment” about a new contract for the midfielder. If Gravenberch indeed does not sign, a departure after the current season is the most obvious, according to Driessen.
“I find it striking that it has come to a complete standstill. A month ago they were still talking about a contract extension,” Driessen added on Monday evening. football talk. Driessen calls Gravenberch ‘the next’ youth exponent who seems to be leaving Ajax. “He now completes half a season and then in fact he has to leave. Mazraoui already leaves for free and that has to do with Raiola.” Brian Brobbey left for RB Leipzig in the summer, but is about to return on a rental basis. Mazraoui tends according to Sport to a transfer to Barcelona.
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“There’s not much wrong with an agent trying to get the highest salary for a player,” added Kenneth Perez of Raiola’s role. “You only know that the risk is that you will leave if the club says ‘no’. One player is ready and the other is not. In Brobbey’s case, he was not ready. But if you want the top prize catch, and Ajax says ‘until here and no further’, then abroad is the only alternative.” Driessen can understand why Brobbey opts for a return to Ajax, although he finds it remarkable that Ajax agreed.
“I can understand that boy. He is a very young boy and may have been driven mad by Raiola,” says the football chief of The Telegraph. “He could earn a lot of salary and received signing money, so you do that. But that boy was very unhappy there and just wanted to go back. Ajax agreed to that and I think that’s special. You get someone back who actually turned their backs on you. The sympathy for Brobbey, especially from Marc Overmars, seems so great that he has done everything possible to get him back.”