There is a greater chance that Alex Kroes will not present Graham Potter as the new trainer this month, according to insiders of the Amsterdam club. Algemeen Dagblad. Negotiations with the English coach are going smoothly, while there are fewer doubts about the cheaper candidate for Ajax – Francesco Farioli – with whom to conclude a deal.
Potter and Farioli currently seem to be the two main options for Ajax to succeed John van ‘t Schip in Amsterdam after the end of this season. The former is often mentioned as the top candidate, but negotiations between Potter’s management and Ajax technical director Alex Kroes are not going well. The two parties were faced with a huge difference between supply and demand and that gap has not yet been closed: “The latest state of affairs is that Graham Potter and his agent John Morris are preparing a new counter-proposal to get Alex Kroes to tack,” he said. It A.D.
The newspaper continues: “This has already been resolved considerably in the negotiations in recent weeks, but insiders still consider it more likely that Kroes will not present the former coach of Brighton and Chelsea in the Johan Cruijff Arena this month,” says the newspaper. the newspaper. Farioli, the other candidate, is seen within Ajax as a much more realistic option when it comes to negotiating a contract.
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“In recent weeks, the club management has become increasingly convinced of the only 35-year-old but substantively strong Italian, about whom there are fewer doubts within Ajax to reach a deal,” Ajax watcher Johan Inan writes in the newspaper. Inan speaks of a denouement that is approaching. The question is how long Ajax will continue to have confidence in an agreement with Potter, who has different terms of his contract in mind than Kroes. If Kroes pulls the plug on the negotiations, he can permanently switch to the cheaper Farioli.
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