Juventus and Napoli are expected to outbid each other with the aim of landing the 22-year-old player. Klaassen’s contract with Ajax is due to expire in 2019 but Napoli have already declared an interest in signing the midfielder. In point of fact, the club has sent a bid for Klaassen in January, but the offer was turned down.

Juventus are also involved in the battle for the promising youngster. They have been keeping a close eye on his performance since 2010. Juve are believed to officially declare their interest in Klaassen in June.

Ajax officials did not release an official statement as to whether they would sanction Klaassen for leaving the club prematurely, but it became clear that his departure would not have serious consequences. However, the Eredivisie giants are yet to confirm their willingness to enter into transfer talks at the end of the season.

According to preliminary information, Ajax might be tempted to accept an offer for the midfielder provided that the sum is between €12 million and €15 million. Soren Lerby, Klaassen’s agent, is believed to have repeatedly discussed that prospect with Cristiano Giuntoli, the Sporting Director of the Blues. However, the preliminary talks between Giuntoli and Lerby do not eliminate Juventus or any other club from the battle for Klaassen.

Klaassen joined Ajax’s Youth Academy in 2004 and made his senior bow five years ago. He has been an Ajax regular since the 2013/2014 season. His performance on the pitch was critical for Ajax to capture a fourth Eredivisie title. During this season, he scored 7 goals and registered 7 assists.

Apart from Klaassen, Juve will try to lure his team-mate Riechedly Bazoer as well as the defensive midfielder of Bayer Leverkusen Christoph Kramer.

However, Juve and Napoli will compete against each other not only on the transfer market but on the football field as well. The derby is to take place this weekend and the outcome of it might determine the main pretender for the Serie A title.

If Juventus win, they will climb the Serie A ladder and occupy the first place. However, an eventual victory for Napoli would boost their chances of winning their first title since the 1990s.

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Vitesse Arnhem‘s name has been cleared of improper conduct linked to their relationship with Chelsea. After an investigation initiated by the Dutch football association (KNVB) on the ownership and structure of the club, both Vitesse Arnhem and Chelsea have been cleared of the allegations.

According to the governing body of the Dutch football association, the current lease contracts between Vitesse and Chelsea do not break any rules and come in correspondence to rental agreements between the Eredivisie No.5 team and other clubs, too.

The suggestions that Chelsea have control over the operations of Vitesse Arnhem, which currently occupies the 5th position in the Eredivisie table, were followed by an independent investigation that found that no improper relationship between the two parties has ever existed. According to the results of the thorough checks carried out, the allegations that the Premier League club had had heavy influence over Dutch team were rejected.

It is true that Chelsea have loaned players to the Eredivisie on a regular basis for about half a decade now. The club’s squad even has temporarily five players at the Vitesse Arnhem’s side, including Dominic Solanke, Lewis Baker, Izzy Brown, Nathan and Danilo Pantic. The five of them joined Vitesse Arnhem’s side on loan in the summer of 2015.

However, according to the governing body of Dutch football association, there is no wrongdoing in the relationship between the two football clubs.

Since 2010, the youngsters of Chelsea have been loaned to the Dutch team on a regular basis in order to offer a first-team chance to the players. In April 2014, the KNVB authority revealed its intentions to take a closer look at the club structure of Vitesse, as well as on their side’s relationship with Chelsea. The decision followed some allegations levelled by a former marjority shareholder – Merab Jordania, who sold his Vitesse shares to Alexander Chigirinsky in 2013.

The latter is known as a long-standing associate of current Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, which is another reason for interference doubts relating the two football clubs.

The official statement of KNVB read that after thoroughly checking various materials available, the Dutch football association concluded that there was no evidence of improper relationship between Chelsea and the Eredivisie club. According to the governing body, the Dutch club has managed to accurately inform it over “its current ownership and legal structure.”

In addition, “no written partnership agreement” has been established between the football teams, but there has actually been collaboration between them “in some areas, such as the hiring of players.”

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FC Twente has been banned from European competition for a period of three years by the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNCB). The punishment came as an echo of “deliberately misleading” the Dutch football association body about a deal to sell player transfer fee rights to a foreign investor.

An official announcement was made by the Royal Netherlands Football Association on Tuesday, saying that the Eredivisie club will be officially cancelled in case that they fail to “fully cooperate” with the independent investigators that are to scrutinise the entire structure of the football club.

The football team was also imposed a fine of €45,250 and “will also not be allowed to take part in European competitions” over the upcoming three seasons. FIFA banned all third-party investments in the economic rights of professional football players, and the punishment had been accepted by the club.

According to the federation’s official statement, the punishment comes as a result of the club’s failure to reveal thorough details of an outside investor’s ownership that could threaten the integrity of the game due to the fact that transfers are normally forced by investors in order for them to make a profit.

The Dutch football association revealed in its statement that the team of Twente, which occupies the 16th place in the Eredivisie table up to date, had “some additions in the contract” it signed with the Malta-based investment company Doyen Sports restrained. According to the federation, this is an indication that the team had deliberately tried to mislead the license commission.

The 3-year ban of the club from the European competition came as the license commission’s verdict associated with the investigation of the partnership between Twente and Doyen Sports. The Royal Netherlands Football Association said that the collaboration in question was “contrary to the licensing regulations” and the professional license of the Dutch football club was revoked, unless Twente makes the decision to fully cooperate with an impartial investigation body.

FC Twente made a separate statement, too. The club said that it has no intention of appealing the decision of the association, but it shared that both the fine and the ban will be a massive hit “at the heart” of the team. The decision will surely threaten Twente’s future not only in the Eredivisie, but as a whole, too.

The details of the collaboration between the football club and the Maltese company were first revealed in January 2014 and got tested against licensing regulations, but no breach were found. Further details emerged in November 2015, which made the Royal Netherlands Football Association re-open the investigation.

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The midfielder of Ajax Riechedly Bazoer, who has already become a regular of his side, has been reported as a transfer target for both Barcelona and Arsenal.

The player, who is now 19 years old, started his career at USV Elinkwijk, but got spotted by a PSV Eindhoven’s scout. After spending six years in their academy, Bazoer happened to dislike the fact he has been categorized as a central defender, so he chose to start looking for another club to join to.

This is how he entered the ranks of Ajax after turning down interest from Manchester City and this was undoubtedly a great choice, because the decision he made definitely worked out for him. Currently, the team of Ajax occupies the first position on the Eredivisie table.

As initially hoped, Bazoer has soon managed to become attractive to the first-team staff of Ajax thanks to his performances in the youngsters team, with the latter’s then-coach Alfons Groenendijk discussing his progress with Ajax’ head coach Frank de Boer on a regular basis. The player entered the first-team’s pre-season’s preparations for the 2013/2014 season.

The official debut of Bazoer happened a year later. He entered the field as part of the first-team staff of Ajax on October 2014 and took part in the club’s match against Urk as part of the Dutch Cup competition. The game ended 4-1 in favour of Ajax, and was followed by a series of impressive performances of the midfielder, which earned a regular spot of Bazoer, then 18 years old, in the team’s starting eleven.

The player’s first goal for Ajax was scored in February this year, and has then signed a new deal with the Eredivisie No.1 team until April 2020.

In spite of several performances of his, which were a bit under the expectations, Bazoer has had an impressive action over the current campaign when entering the field as first-choice. The great work of the midfielder was rewarded in October 2015, when he was called up to the Netherlands national football team for the first time.

In November this year he made several brief debuts as a late substitute in the 3-2 friendly game against Wales. Previously, the player was part of the national Under-15 team.

Undoubtedly, Bazoer impresses with his talent and versatility at the midfielder position. In addition, he owns a mixture of physical and technical skills that provide him with the opportunity to give his contribution to all aspects of the game. Bazoer also does a great work in collaboration with his team-mates, not to mention his intelligent positioning an movement over the field.

All of this makes the 19-year-old midfielder a highly versatile player. He has been playing as a centre-back and a full-back, but still, it seems that it is the midfielder role that suits him best. Moreover, his young age suggests that he is certainly to improve in future. If provided with enough game time and regular development at Ajax, he has all the chances of becoming one of the best in Europe.

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AFC Ajax is currently ranked first at the national Eredivisie after registering an eleventh win in a total of fourteen games in their domestic league this season. The team managed to seal a 2-0 victory against PEC Zwolle and extended their gap at the top of the league on Sunday.

The two goals for Ajax were scored in each half by Amin Younes and Thulani Serero, respectively.

Ajax protected its three-point lead at the top of the Dutch league thanks the PEC Zwolle’s goalkeeper Kevin Begois who eventually slipped and allowed Amin Younes to find the net before the half-time break. The leaders in Eredivisie added a second goal in the second half, too, due to excellent play of the substitute Thulani Serero.

PEC Zwolle have turned out to be a pretty tough opponent to Ajax recently, especially considered that they managed to beat the leaders in the table in the 2014 Dutch Cup final. Still, Ajax proved themselves as the better team up to date, reaching a comfortable win over the ex European Champions in their Sunday match.

Although AFC Ajax demonstrated dominance over the first half of the game and had plenty of possession, they are considered to have wasted a number of major chances for scoring a goal. The team’s wingers Viktor Fischer and Amin Younes were not accurate enough and did not manage to find the opponent’s net. Zwolle proved themselves as tough rivals, especially considering the fact that it took a mistake of their goalkeeper in order to Younes to score for Ajax in the 37th minute.

In the second half, however, Zwolle came back into the match. They created several chances, but unfortunately for them, they did not managed to score a goal, while substitute Thulani Serero cemented Ajax’s victory by scoring another goal for the team in the 86th minute. The goal was assisted by Lasse Schone, who demonstrated excellent game and resourcefulness.

Up to date, Ajax maintain the lead in the Dutch Eredivisie. The team has gathered a total of 35 points out of 14 matches.

This put it 3 points clear ahead of the second one in the table – the team of Feyenoord, who had beaten the 12th in the Eredivisie – S.B.V. Excelsior – the day before. The top three in the domestic championship of the Netherlands were completed by PSV Eindhoven who cemented their position after coming victorious of the game against AZ Alkmaar that ended 3-0.

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The bone of contention was the agreement with Doyen Sports Investments, a Maltese company that was said to blacken the club reputation. Currently, the company is being investigated by the Dutch soccer federation.

Documents about the contract between Twente and Doyen were published this week. The deal was inked last year but at that time, FIFA has not prohibited the third-party ownership practice yet.
According to the clauses the contract contains, the company had to pay a total of €5 million in exchange for a percentage of the transfer fee rights of seven players.

Doyen made an announcement on the matter and according to company representatives the leaked information was partially true. As for the documents, they claimed they had been obtained via a cyber attack and tried to disapprove what was published in media.

Company officials also added that they have already taken the necessary actions towards identifying those responsible for the attack. They also clearly stated that Doyen Sports had nothing to hide and all future actions were to be in favour of its partners and people the company works with. The company representatives concluded that the competent authorities have already been put in charge of the case.

Back in 2014, FIFA made the third-party ownership illegal and pointed the threat to the integrity as the main reason for that decision. In other words, investors were said to force transfers in order to turn a profit.

Van der Laan also commented on his resignation and said that Twente interests have always been among his top priorities. However, they were under threat and the doubts had an extremely negative impact on Twente’s reputation.

Van der Laan has been in charge of the club for less than a year. In point of fact, he has “inherited” the deal from his predecessor Joop Munsterman who also had a finger in the pie. Apart from the clause concerning the percentage of transfer fee rights, the contract contains yet another clause that gives Doyen the right to have a say over the transfer policy of Twente, which is currently banned by the KNVB.

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The last derby between the Red Devils and the Peasants was in September and during the game, Moreno and Shaw were involved in a collision, which caused Shaw’s double leg break.

Although Louis van Gaal said that his players are not going to seek revenge for Shaw’s injury, it remains to be seen as to whether his prediction will come true.

PSV have repeatedly shown their support for Shaw. Moreno and Cocu visited the injured Man United player when he was at the hospital. Moreno has apologised for the incident, but he was not punished for it. Yet, it remains uncertain whether Shaw’s teammates and fans will seek revenge today, although Cocu urged Man United supporters not to boo him.

Cocu expects both fans and players to spare Moreno’s tough treatment. PSV’s manager also added that the injury was really bad, but he hopes Shaw to be in full fitness soon and ready to play for United.

As far as Moreno’s reception is concerned, Cocu said that he had no clue what was going to happen. Although PSV’s home win against the Red Devils was overshadowed by the accident, the Peasants are said to go to Old Trafford full of belief.

Luuk De Jong, PSV’s striker, commented on today’s derby and said that faith and confidence were two main components for a victory. He also admitted that United are a tough opponent but at the end of the day, PSV needed that victory. The striker also added that PSV is playing in the Champions League and therefore, they have to perform really well.

Currently, Man United tops Group B with a total of seven points collected in four matches. The difference between the Red Devils and PSV is just one point. Expectedly, Shaw is not going to take part in today’s match but according to the information, PSV fans are going to unveil a “get well soon” banner for the English left-back at Old Trafford.

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Guardado’s injury occurred during a training and as a result, he might not take part in the game against The Red Devils, scheduled for tomorrow. The injury is due to a collision with Adam Maher, PSV’s midfielder. Guardado has partially completed the session, but the collision made it necessary to pull out.

The last clash between PSV and Man United was in the middle of September and now, PSV need to do their best to achieve victory over the Red Devils. Failing to do so significantly decreases the chances for qualifying for the knockout stages. Yet, the club has not revealed as to whether the 29-year-old midfielder is to take part in the derby.

Guardado, who is also playing for the national football team of Mexico, is a key player in Phillip Cocu’s squad. He became known for his excellent pass accuracy in all 11 Eredivisie matches he took part in.

In point of fact, the absence of Guardado increases Man United’s chances of winning the match. In case the Red Devils achieve a victory against PSV, they secure their spot in the knockout Champions League stage. Currently, Manchester United tops Group B with a total of 7 points.

United’s plans for progressing from Group B were scrapped as they suffered a loss against PSV Eindhoven in September. However, they managed to achieve home wins against Wolfsburg and CSKA Moscow, which sent them to the top place in B Group.

For the time being, the Peasants occupy the second position in B Group and the difference between them and the leader Man United is just one point. As for PSV, the last Champions League victory they achieved away from home dates back to 2007.

Last Saturday, Phillip Cocu’s men made yet another attempt to win, but the match against Willem II made them experience a disappointing draw at Koning Willem II Stadion. PSV’s manager was quoted as saying that if they wanted to win any trophies during the season, they needed to play equally well against all teams instead of rising above their potential only when they play against top teams.

Apart from the game against Man United, the Peasants will have to face AZ Alkmaar, Vitesse, CSKA Moscow and Roda on Nov. 29th, Dec 5th, Dec 8th and Dec 12th, respectively.

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The match started with a one-minute silence in memory of the victims of the Paris attacks. During the first half, Simon Gustafson scored two goals. During the second half, Bilal Basacikoglu, Michiel Kramer and Karim El Ahmadi netted three more goals against Twente.

Back on Saturday, Ajax played against SC Cambuur and Joel Veltman scored the opening goal. However, Sander van de Streek, The Yellow-Blues’ midfielder, equalized before long. Yet, Ajax managed to achieve a home win after Amin Younes, Arek Milik and Davy Klaassen scored four goals.

Meanwhile, the derby between PSV and Willem II took place in Tilburg. The Peasants lost their second place and Feyenoord took full advantage of the situation and now, it is currently ranked 2nd in the Eredivisie table.

Feyenoord, under the guidance of Giovanni van Bronckhorst, benefitted greatly from the draw result of the game between PSV Eindhoven and Willem II and managed to climb one place. Now, Feyenoord is going to keep up the pressure on Ajax. The latter has successfully retained its leading position in the Eredivisie table.

Simon Gustafson scored the first goal for the hosts in the 7th minute. Karim El Ahmadi, Michiel Kramer, Bilal Basacikoglu also contributed to Feyenoord success and the team currently has a total of 29 points out of 13 matches. The difference between Feyenoord and Ajax is just three points.

Feyenoord was the club where the football star Robin van Persie started his career. He left the club to join Arsenal but now, he is playing for the Turkish Fenerbahce. Although the manager of Fenerbahce denied any intentions to sell Van Persie, rumour has it that he has already found him a replacement and Van Persie’s return to Feyenoord seems inevitable.

Last year’s Eredivisie champion, PSV Eindhoven, are currently ranked third as they failed to achieve a victory over Willem II while Ajax triumphed over Cambuur 5-1.

Twente takes the 15th place. The 2010 champions are striving to bring their old glory back but according to the latest reports, the club is in a terrible financial condition. In addition, they are approaching the relegation zone.

Heracles is currently fourth while Vitesse moved to 6th position. The match between the Vitas and ADO Den Haag finished 2-2, although Vitesse had better chances of scoring during the first half. Kelvin Leerdam and Sheran Yeini scored their first goals of the season, but Ruben Schaken and Timothy Derijck equalized pretty soon.

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Although Finidi George is no longer an active player, he used to play a key role in Ajax. His talent has contributed to the Jews’ victories and ensured them international recognition. Finidi George played as a winger and registered a total of 85 appearances and 18 goals.

In an interview for a UK media, Van Gaal reminded the community of the times when he was Ajax manager. The club has won the Champions League title and as many as three Eredivisie titles under his guidance.

According to the current Man United manager, Ajax was in a terrible financial condition and basically the club was near bankruptcy. However, it was not a setback for the former manager who “had to look to youth”. Van Gaal shared that he had no choice but to give the amount of £3000 and pay for George’s transfer.

Van Gaal said that Ajax bought Jari Litmanen for the sum of £10,000 and then Marc Overmars joined the Dutch club. As for Finidi George, his arrival at the Amsterdam Arena would not be possible if it was not for Van Gaal’s generosity.

However, Van Gaal also said that the names Ajax fans would never forget are those of Kluivert, Reiziger and Seedorf and added that a great number of Ajax victories should be attributed to the attacking football.

Van Gaal’s announcement came in response to the critics he got from Scholes. According to the Man United legend, the contemporary Man United team would not be a good fit for him as the manager does not encourage the footballers to play “attractive football”.

According to the former United midfielder, the Dutchman “has a problem with creative players”. However, Van Gaal strongly disapproved of Scholes’ statement and reminded that Ajax owes its great victories namely to its attacking football.

Van Gaal also commented on the fact that the Netherlands failed to secure a place at Euro 2016. He was quoted as saying that currently, the majority of people define the Dutch school as a rubbish.

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