{"id":21197,"date":"2020-08-31T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T10:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=21197"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T10:35:43","slug":"donny-van-de-beek-manchester-united-agree-40m-fee-for-ajax-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/08\/31\/donny-van-de-beek-manchester-united-agree-40m-fee-for-ajax-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Donny van de Beek: Manchester United agree \u00a340m fee for Ajax midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United are closing in on the signing of Ajax midfielder Donny van de Beek after the two clubs agreed a fee in the region of \u00a340m.<\/span><\/p>\n

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United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a huge admirer of the Netherlands international, 23, and has had him watched on a number of occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is understood United have now firmed up their interest with a medical and personal terms still to be concluded. <\/span><\/p>\n

The transfer is expected to be finalised within days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Van de Beek is set to sign a five-year deal, which should allow him to be available for United’s opening game of the 2020-21 season, against Crystal Palace on 19 September.<\/span><\/p>\n

He will become Solskjaer’s first close-season signing after a much-publicised move for Borussia Dortmund’s England winger Jadon Sancho stalled over the size of the fee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Van de Beek was part of the outstanding Ajax side that got to the Champions League semi-finals in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was <\/span>left out of Ajax’s friendlies<\/span><\/a> with German pair Eintracht Frankfurt and Union Berlin over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester United are closing in on the signing of Ajax midfielder Donny van de Beek after the two clubs agreed a fee in the region of £40m. United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a huge admirer of the Netherlands international, 23, and has had him watched on a number of occasions. It is understood United have now firmed up their interest with a medical and personal terms still to be concluded. The transfer is expected to be finalised within days. Van de Beek is set to sign a five-year deal,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21199,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21197\/revisions\/21199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}