Ajaxtalk

I bet we do not get Elia.

I just read Elia spent 2 years with our youth system., do not know when as he may have been a 10 year old, but we could end up paying 10m euros for an ex youth!!!!

Ignore above as i looked him up on wikepedia. He was with us from 13 to 15 having been at Den Haag youths for 4 years before and then went back to them. So he is not an Ajax youth in the true sense.

I think the ten million part is right, however. I believe Twente will really try to stick it to Ajax after the Wielaert business earlier this year .

Leave it to De Telegraaf. There is a story on AN quoting a DT website headline " ELJERO ELIA NAAR AJAX " . I'll believe it when Ko says it's so.

Rumours are getting stronger that Ajax is willing to pay 12 milion for Elia.... That kind of money would release Elia from Twente.

A bit too much if you ask me. Or maybe he can play in defense for that price?

Well written article. Thank you for posting. Sadly, I'll believe we're going in for a defender when it happens.

Toure from Arsenal has handed in a transfer request. I think he is still a pretty good defender but at 10 million pounds?! Maybe he could come on loan?

Here we go again...

According to Sp!ts, one of Holland's fantastic freebie newspapers (the full colour toilet paper that commuters read on their trains), Ajax are preparing a 2.5 miilion euro bid for Nwankwo Kanu (who's now playing for Portsmouth).

Nwankwo Kanu is the 'new Dennis Bergkamp', when it comes to transfer rumors: each and every time the transfer window opens, at least one newspaper will claim that he's about to return to Ajax...

Something tells me it's not gonna happen.

K.

Something tells me that I really want it to happen. I'm afraid Ko's right though; some journalist must have written this down in his diary decades ago to make sure he would be the first to mention this possible transfer again.

Looks like Elia wont come as the asking price is too high.

Now this is what I call good news... (it's from NOS Teletekst):

Ajax and Twente are once again talking about a possible transfer of defender Rob Wielaert to the Amsterdam outfit. Ajax's previous attempt, in the summer of 2008, was unsuccesful, but the situation has changed: Ajax received a large transfer fee from Real Madrid (for Klaas-Jan Huntelaar), whereas the renewed deal Wielaert penned in Enschede (until 2012) includes a special clause for a limited transfer fee (reportedly 3 million euros).

That would be a very good move. I don't think we need another fast, sexy forward like Elia (unless it's a real centre forward), but we can sure as hell use a proper, 'no bullshit' type defender.

K.

Too bad he hasn't got the quality.

Ajax Netwerk has a blurb about a 6.5 million bid for Elia being underwhelming to FC Twente. I like the possible Wielaert move.

I say possible move because I have no doubt that Joop Munsterman will try to exact the usual pound of flesh from Ajax , if not road block any sale all together.

I would also prefer Wielart over Elia, but I don't think we'll be getting either, at least this winter. I think it would be worth even paying an overvalued transfer fee to get a proper defender at this point. The Huntelaar money should easily cover it, but I'm not expecting anyone of much quality coming in over the next few weeks, unfortunately.

I believe Wielart signed a contract with a minimum fee involved.I think he is about 28/29 so it may only be about £3m max.

SPL schreef:I think he is about 28/29 so it may only be about £3m max.

According to the infallibly accurate Wikipedia, Wielaert turned thirty on December 29.

I confess I know nothing about him. Would he really make that much of a difference?

We are apparently looking at 19 yr old Sofiane Feghouli from Grenoble. Appartently, he is a playmaker.
With this much interest, no chance though.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 32,00.html

It's a rather old news here in France now but I really don't think it's serious. Here, you just have to watch a player once or twice to appear in such rumours.

FWIW, Algemeen Dagblad Sportwereld, the link for the article is on AN, is reporting that there is a contract between Robbie Wielaert and Ajax for 2.5 years with an option for another year.

VI.nl is running a story that Robbie Wielaert, currently with Twente in Spain, has lost the captain's armband. The report indicates that Blaise N'Kufo is FC Twente's new captain.

Not sure is this is punishment for being linked to Ajax or the first step of cutting ties with the player.

Can't imagine that makes Wielart want to stay or feel much more welcome with Twente. I honestly didn't think we'd get him at first, but this and the buyout clause he has in his newly signed contract seem to indicate that it might very well happen.

I think he's a player we need, more than another midfielder or forward. He's 30 and I'm not convinced that he's anything special, but I do think he can fill a hole this squad has had for a few years. How long he can do it is another question.