304 Ajax's sincerity [the seventh update of the lungs, begging for a monthly pass]

When Yang Yang and Raiola arrived at the Amsterdam Arena, reporters who had already received the news were waiting outside.

The Pro League is like that.

Yesterday the team won the championship, celebrated and celebrated, but then it should be the first priority.

For Ajax, whether they can stay with Yang Yang is the top priority this summer.

Nothing is more important than Yang Yang's contract renewal.

Raiola drove directly into the internal parking lot, and all media reporters were shut out.

Although they took photos of Yang Yang and his agent at the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium, it was difficult to know the details of the negotiations between the two sides and whether an agreement could be reached.

It is foreseeable that in the next period of time, the renewal and transfer of Yang Yang will become a hot topic in the Netherlands and even in the world's major media.

The front desk of the office had already received the news, and greeted Yang Yang from afar, and welcomed the two of them into the conference room.

In addition to Ali van Eden, Ajax's director in charge of technical departments and transfer negotiations, the club's president Michael van Praag and the director who specialises in managing finances will be in attendance.

To Yang Yang's surprise, the first team's head coach Ronald Koeman was also among them.

"Good morning, Boss!" Yang Yang stretched out his hand towards Ronald Koeman from afar.

Then he shook hands with the chairman and the directors one after another, and greeted them politely for a while.

After the female assistant brought in a hot drink and closed the door and exited, both parties began to get to the point.

In this meeting, Ajax's director Ali Van Eden played the leading role, he first thanked Yang Yang for his contribution to the team in the past two seasons, believing that he is already the most important core player of the team, and the club sincerely hopes that Yang Yang can stay in the team and continue to grow and develop.

"A big part of the reason why we restructured last season was to improve our financial situation, and this season we have improved significantly financially, which also allows us to spare more and more money to strengthen and improve the team."

With that, Ali van Eden handed Yang a copy of the club's transfer plan for this summer.

"Our board of directors have basically agreed that next season's Champions League will be the main focus of our squad, and in order to be able to do better in this field and try to qualify from the group stage again, we will do our best to retain all the key players in our current first team this summer."

After hearing Ali Van Eden's words, Yang Yang was somewhat surprised.

Keep all the key players in the squad?

In other words, will Ajax sell their main stars this summer?

I have to say that this is indeed a pretty good proposal, because Yang Yang knows very well that the teammates of this team are still very strong, and they are very young and have made great progress.

But Yang Yang still kept an eye on it and turned his head to look at Ronald Koeman.

He prefers to trust the manager rather than the director.

Ronald Koeman also nodded at Yang Yang, acquiescing to Ali van Eden's statement, and it seems that he himself is a participant in this plan, otherwise he would not be able to attend today's meeting.

It is likely that Ajax further expanded his managerial authority in order to keep him in office.

Yang Yang opened the transfer plan handed over by Ali Van Eden, which emphasized that what Ajax desperately wants to strengthen is the midfield, and it is best to have a player with a better balance of attack and defense.

The current midfield is Galasek and De Jong in the back, and Sneijder plays forward alone, but the problem with this combination is that the defense is very good, but the attack is not strong enough.

Sneijder's organisational skills are quite good, and his attacking ability to plug in from the back is excellent, and in this case, he is indeed too tired to support the midfield alone, and many times it can even be said that he is not enough.

Pienal played well as a left winger, with good playmaking and passing, and if he was to play back in the middle of the midfield, partner Sneijder, and add a defensive midfielder, the team would be creative enough, but the defence would be a bit weak.

To put it bluntly, Ajax is a Dutch team that insists on attacking football, and although Ronald Koeman is known for his defensive training, there is no shortage of attacking coaches in the Ajax squad, such as Luther Carroll.

Previously, Yang Yang had received news that Ajax had taken a fancy to Shakhtar Donetsk's Timoshchuk and Dezeu's Dezeu of the Dutch Second Division's Advancing Eagles, but the former would cost a huge amount of money, even more than fifteen million euros.

This is clearly beyond Ajax's transfer budget.

The Eredivisie giants do want to bring in reinforcements, but they still can't avoid the careful calculations of small teams, and they still want to spend a little money to do big things, which is not impossible.

For example, McConn didn't spend much money at the beginning, but it turns out that after being brought in, with a little adjustment, McConn is now the main player on the right side of Ajax and has performed quite well.

De Zeou is a player who has performed well, was quite impressive in the Eredivisie last season, and has also brought in the attention of a number of domestic teams in the Netherlands, and the 22-year-old is also very much in line with Ajax's positioning.

The Dutch midfielder is definitely a bargain and at the same time a knowledgeable type.

In addition to De Zeou, there is another candidate in the plan, which is an Ivorian midfielder named Yaya Toure, who plays for Ukraine's Donetsk metallurgical team, Yaya Toure, who is also 22 years old this year.

According to Ajax's scouting report, the player came to Europe from Ivory Coast in '01, first at Beveren in the Belgian second division, and then went to Arsenal for a trial in '03 with the help of his brother Kolo Toure, but was unable to stay.

In the summer of '04, he transferred from Beveren to Ukraine's Metallurgical team Donetsk for 1.8 million euros, which was a big leap in his career, because Metallurgical Donetsk was able to play in the UEFA Cup, but only stopped in the first round, and was eliminated 3-0 by Lazio in both legs.

But in those two games, Yaya Toure made a good impression, and in the subsequent league games, he showed very good quality, and can play in many different positions such as midfield, midfield, midfield, and even central defender, and is a very well-rounded player.

Due to the poor performance of Donetsk Metallurgy this season, Yaya Toure also moved the mind to leave the team.

This player was eyed by Ajax's scouts when they scouted Shakhtar Donetsk's Timoshchuk, but the asking price of the Donetsk metallurgical team is not low, and Ajax does not know enough about the player, the only thing that is certain is that he is very physical and tall.

De Zeou is only 1.74 meters tall, but Yaya Toure is 1.87 meters tall and has the physical qualities of an African player, which is currently seriously lacking in Ajax.

But judging from the recruitment plan, Ajax's first choice is still Dezeu.

The reason is simple, the player is more familiar with the Eredivisie and his price is relatively cheaper, and the whole Ajax is very optimistic about him, believing that he can play an important role in the team.

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After reading the entire transfer plan, Yang Yang also understood what the management meant.

Introduce a strong midfielder, further strengthen the team's midfield control, improve the team's offensive firepower in the frontcourt, and continue to build the team's offensive combination around Yang Yang as the core.

The investment in the transfer market will not be too large, trying to control between three million and five million euros, but a number of players in the squad will be renewed, including Pinard, Sneijder and Yang Yang.

Among them, the focus of the renewal is Yang Yang.

When Yang Yang flipped through the transfer plan, Ali Van Eden also gave the club's sincerity on the issue of contract renewal, that is, the team is willing to double Yang Yang's salary on the existing basis.

A weekly salary of 20,000 euros after tax, which is already up to the standard of Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic.

After a new round of contract renewal, only Sneijder can reach the same salary level as Yang Yang, and other players will inevitably be slightly inferior, which means that Yang Yang will become Ajax's deserved number one star.

In addition, the appearance bonus, goal bonus and assist bonus, as well as the team's performance bonus, will be greatly improved on the existing basis, and Yang Yang's income will be much higher than now.

In addition to Ali van Eden, club president Michael van Praag also gave the club's commitment, saying that if Yang Yang is willing to stay, the team will do its best to develop him, and devote all resources to ensure his position and tactical role in the team, to ensure that he can continue to perform well this season in the new season.

It should be said that after listening to the chips given by Ajax, Yang Yang did feel sincerity.

But he doesn't feel that the club is at a loss, the reason is very simple, as long as Yang Yang performs well in the new season, when the club sells him in the future, he will get a higher income, which is not a matter of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of euros.

According to the current valuation of Yang Yang by the outside world, the lowest and lowest has reached 25 million euros, and everyone knows that it is absolutely impossible to convince Ajax to sell at this price.

Yang Yang also knew about these, but he didn't break it, and the whole process was handed over to Raiola to be responsible.

After talking for more than an hour, the two sides fully exchanged their views, Yang Yang and Raiola did not make a clear statement, and the two sides quickly ended the first negotiation.

After seeing off Yang Yang and Raiola, Ali Van Eden shook his head and sighed.

"This Italian vampire is hard to deal with."

If it was just Yang Yang alone, the club would not be too difficult to convince him, but with one more Raiola, the situation would be much more complicated.

And it can be seen that Yang Yang still trusts Raiola very much.

But no matter what, they still have to deal with Raiola.

Renewing Yang Yang's contract is Ajax's top priority this summer.