Ajax manager Eric Ten Hag has admitted that goalkeeper Andre Onana has been told he will be allowed to leave the club this summer.
Onana has been touted as a Tottenham target since a November 2018 report from Voetbal International, when we started to ponder replacing Hugo Lloris, and we saw him up close across two legs last May, of course.
There were stirrings of the Cameroonian’s potential departure last summer, but Ajax struck a Daniel Levy-esque ‘give me one more year’ deal, with his boss Ten Hag admitting that such an agreement was promised.
He told Algemeen Dagblad: “Andre is very important to us, of course we don’t want to lose him. But it is true that agreements were made last year. About the development picture and a possible step if the right club and price comes along. As far as I know, no concrete offer has been made to Ajax.”
Although Onana is readily available, he is not Tottenham’s first choice for a new goalkeeper, according to Turkish outlet Fotomac, cited by Sport Witness. Fotomac understands that Trabzonspor’s Ugurcan Cakir is the preferred option based on the anticipation that he would be cheaper to buy. Lazio’s Thomas Strakosha is also apparently on Jose Mourinho’s shortlist.
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I haven’t seen any of Cakir and very little of Strakosha, but I’d rather steer clear of Onana. There was enough uncertainty in the Champions League semi-final to suggest to me that he’d be just as mistaken prone as our Hugo.
We can forget that now. Only Levy would take us from a Champions League Final to mid table mediocrity AFTER building ‘the best stadium in the world’.
He’s used the Emirates model from the off, the parallels are frightening…
ENIC OUT.
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And last year we were letting those gooners know what we think of Thursday nights out.
Is levy signing the lot? May find a real gem in there danny! Or might be able to paint the new roof.
We will be in the Europa League for the next 5 seasons at least, that’s if we even achieve top six consistently…
ENIC OUT.
Just saw a report in the Guardian that FC Sion a Swiss club have sacked eight players for refusing to take a pay cut because of the Coronavirus. Interesting that the goalkeeper who is most likely to be signed is favoured because he is the cheapest, not that he is the best available. An era of irrelevancy looms.
Hugo on his way too? The jigsaw is being dismembered piece by piece and with Poch perhaps on his way to Newcastle, we will see what could have been if levy had loosened the purse strings which would have sent merchandise sales through the roof had pots been picked up. A player with winning mentality would have secured the leagues when Leicester and cheatski picked them up and the European cup, but winners would have upset the apple cart and meant levy would have had to pay the going rate for all our players. Another 10 f&^ked up years coming. I have long given up and levy and son posing on the pitch after the semi sticks in the throat. Mourinho is a check book manager, so will not work, but these ays, with cheatski, man city, Liverpool, utd and now Newcastle spending big, we do not have a prayer as it stands. Still if Pleat and Walker are available they can both make their sweet ways down to kings cross when the social distancing is over.