Wijndal, a promising winger to jump on Ajax

The deep remodeling of the Ajax squad continues after the departure of Erik ten Hag from the Manchester United bench. This time the ‘ajacied’ club was not in the news due to a new move but due to the announcement of the signing of promising left-back Owen Wijndal, 22, for which he paid ten million euros to AZ Alkmaar. The player is signed until 2027.

Surveyed months ago by Juventus, Wijndal has been an international for the Netherlands in all lower categories and has already made his senior team debut. It was in October 2020 in a friendly against Mexico. In total, he has eleven matches as an ‘oranje’ international and all indicate that he will be called up by Louis van Gaal for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Balance between buying and selling

Coming out of AZ Alkmaar youth academy, Wijndal made his first-team debut at the age of 17 in February 2017 and upon his signing, Ajax invested 41.25 million euros in transfers after signing Steven Bergwijn, from Tottenham , in the amount of 31 .25 million. euros, a record figure throughout its history for signing a player.

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However, this investment is the balance of 50 million euros received from the transfers of Sébastien Haller to Borussia Dortmund for 31 million, Ryan Gravenberch to Bayern Munich for 18.50 and Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Kotarski to NHK Gorica for one . They have also left Ajax, after their contracts, André Onana (Inter, Noussair Mazraoui (Bayern Munich), Danilo Pereira (Feyenoord), Polish goalkeeper Prezeyslaw Tyton (Twente) and Zakaria Labyad (no team).