MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United accomplished the signing of Ajax midfielder Donny Van De Beek on Wednesday for the English club’s first addition of the switch window.
The deal for the 23-twelve months-extinct Netherlands international is value 39 million euros ($46 million), plus an additional 5 million euros ($6 million) in add-ons, Ajax talked about.
Van De Beek, who done the biggest role in Ajax’s walk to final twelve months’s Champions League semifinals, signed a five-twelve months tackle the option of a additional season and may perchance well ranking an provocative-having a inquire midfield combination with Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes.
“I’m able to no longer birth to show how unimaginable a probability it is a long way to be half of a club with such an ideal historical past,” Van De Beek talked about. “All people has commended me how amazing the Ancient Trafford atmosphere is and I’m having a inquire forward to experiencing that, once it is a long way valid for the fans to return.”
Van De Beek came thru the ranks at Ajax and has long gone on to construct himself within the Dutch national team.
He’ll head to Manchester after the Netherlands’ upcoming Countries League double-header with Poland and Italy.
“Donny has all of the technical attributes wanted to create on this team and has the personality required to succeed at Manchester United,” United supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer talked about. “His capability to glimpse build, time his movements and browse the game will indubitably complement the qualities that now we like in midfield and his arrival indubitably strengthens the depth of skills now we like in that quandary.”
United has been heavily linked this offseason with England winger Jadon Sancho, whose club — Borussia Dortmund — says he’s presumably no longer leaving.
