Top English Premier League club, Donny Van De Beek , are set to make Donny van de Beek their first signing of the summer transfer window. The club are closing in on the Ajax midfielder after the two clubs agreed a fee in the region of £40 million.
The fee is reportedly £35.7 million (€40 million) plus add-ons, with personal terms agreed with the Netherlands midfielder on a deal until 2025.
United boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, is a huge admirer of the Dutch footballer, who is just 23. He has had him watched on a number of occasions and in Bruno Fernandez, the coach has already signed a perfect match for the Netherland.
The transfer is expected to be finalised within days with the 23-year-old already through with his medicals at Old Trafford. He is with the Netherlands squad ahead of their Nations League games against Poland (September 4) and Italy (September 7). He will travel to the UK after those fixtures.
This should allow him to be available for United’s opening game of the 2020-21 season against Crystal Palace on September 19.
Van de Beek has spent his career so far with Ajax, joining their youth academy in August 2014. He rose through the ranks and also featured for Jong Ajax – the club’s reserve team – before making his first-team debut in November 2015 during a Europa League encounter with Celtic.
He became a first-team regular the following season while still a teenager, Van de Beek, bursted onto the European scene as part of the electrifying Ajax side that reached the Champions League semi-finals in 2019. He was one of their standout young stars alongside Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong – now at Juventus and Barcelona respectively.
He scored three goals on Ajax’s incredible run to the last four, including the only goal of the game against Tottenham in the first leg of their semi-final tie. He scored a further nine in the Eredivisie as Ajax won their first league title in five years with 10 assists.
What makes Van de Beek special is his incredible versatility; he can operate in a central or attacking role and has been described as the classic box-to-box midfielder.The 23-year-old has the ability to play anywhere across the middle and as well as being that vital link between defence and attack, he is more offensively minded than other central midfield players.
Van de Beek was close to joining Real Madrid prior the coronavirus pandemic, but he did not complete a medical or sign an agreement with the club.
