Manchester United introduced the signing of Ajax midfielder Donny van de Beek on Wednesday for a reported payment of 39 million euros plus add-ons. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made the 23-year-old Dutch worldwide his first signing of the summer season switch window in a deal that would rise to 44 million euros. Van de Beek, who performed an necessary position in Ajax’s run to the Champions League semi-finals within the 2018/19 season, has signed a five-year deal at Outdated Trafford with the choice of an additional season.
“I can’t start to elucidate how unimaginable a possibility it’s to affix a membership with such an incredible historical past,” he stated.
“I want to thank everybody at Ajax. I grew up there and I’ll at all times have a particular bond with the membership. I’m now able to take the subsequent step in my profession and carry out on the highest degree and there’s no larger commonplace than Manchester United.”
He added: “Having spoken to the supervisor about his imaginative and prescient for this workforce, the course that the membership goes in is vastly thrilling and I can’t wait to be part of that.”
Van de Beek got here via the ranks at Ajax and has gone on to determine himself within the Netherlands nationwide workforce.
Solskjaer stated: “Donny has all the technical attributes wanted to carry out on this workforce, and has the character required to succeed at Manchester United.”
“His capability to see house, time his actions and browse the sport will actually complement the qualities that now we have in midfield and his arrival actually strengthens the depth of expertise now we have in that place.”
Ajax’s director of soccer affairs Marc Overmars wished Van de Beek all one of the best at Outdated Trafford.
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“This can be a nice switch for Donny, one which he deserves,” he stated.
“It is also a praise to Ajax’s youth academy, the place he has performed since he was 11. Final summer season there was numerous curiosity in him however, fortunately, we had been capable of preserve him at Ajax for yet one more 12 months.”
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