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Ajax Race to Sign Jahanbakhsh

reporter 1222 — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:15:08 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ajax has reportedly made contact with Brighton’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh as the winger looks set to move on from a disappointing two-year spell with the Seagulls.

Alireza Jahanbakhsh joined the Premier League side from AZ Alkmaar in the summer of 2018 for a club-record of £17m.

While PSV Eindhoven is also interested in the 26-year-old, Ajax director of football Marc Overmars appears to have stolen a march on Eredivisie rival.

There has been no mention of how much Brighton would want in terms of a sale, but manager Graham Potter’s recent comments suggest the south coast club would listen to reasonable offers.

Speaking about Jahanbakhsh’s situation, the Brighton & Hove Independent quoted Potter as saying: “Of course he will be frustrated because he wants to play and I understand that.

“He’s great and does his best all the time, but he wants to play more like any other footballer.

“So that’s something we have to think about during the summer break, we have to do what’s right for him and the club. But he is a good player and can help us.

“But again, from his perspective, it is understandable that he wants to play more.”

Before Ajax offer, Jahanbakhsh has earned 50 caps for his country, scoring seven goals for the Persian Stars in the process.

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Ajax After Jahanbakhsh

reporter 1222 — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:34:11 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Dutch giant Ajax has shown interest in signing Iran international winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh.

Since leaving AZ Alkmaar for a big-money Premier League switch, Jahanbakhsh has failed to make the mark at Brighton and Hove Albion, scoring just twice in 34 career appearances.

In fact, Jahanbakhsh has made just eight Premier League appearances this season and with three years remaining on his contract, it could be the perfect time for Brighton to sell.

According to De Telegraaf, the 26-year-old would be open to an Eredivisie comeback and Ajax has set its sights on bringing him into the fold.

With Hakim Ziyech off to Chelsea, Ajax are in need of a winger and Marc Overmars has apparently been in contact with the player.

Brighton has come out of the lengthy delay with a big win against Arsenal and an impressive draw against Leicester and is now six points above the drop zone with seven games to play.

Should Brighton have the misfortune of getting relegated, Ajax would undoubtedly get a significant discount on Jahanbakhsh. It’s currently unclear how much Brighton want for the player.

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Real Madrid 1-4 Ajax: Brilliant visitors knock out Champions League holders

reporter 1222 — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 07:12:02 +0000

In a single week at the Bernabéu they have been knocked out of the Copa del Rey, the league, and the competition they made their own. When the end came, it was brutal. It was also brilliant. Ajax came and tore them to bits, scoring four goals, each more impressive than the last.This is the third time Ajax have won here in this competition, after 1973 and 1995. The last two times they won the European Cup; few would expect that now, those days long gone, but on this evidence that romantic idea may not be so misplaced.

Madrid are bad, it is true. Their “shit season” in Dani Carvajal’s words, is over in March, thanks to three home defeats in seven with an aggregate score of 8-1. But it is also true that Ajax are very good. Goals from Hakim Ziyech, David Neres, Dusan Tadic and Lasse Schöne were the consequence of a collective superiority that was startling and they are deservedly through: too fast, too incisive, too well organised for a team that is disintegrating, a generation that has come to a close.

Santi Solari said afterwards “so much had happened”, and he was right. Madrid suffered three injuries, Lucas Vázquez and Vinícius withdrawn within half an hour and Gareth Bale limping through the final minutes. They also hit the post twice. Nacho was sent off in added time. And there was a five-minute wait for the VAR to allow Ajax’s third goal – the kind of delay that makes technology more a hinderance than a help. And yet sometimes for all the analysis, all the detail, there is a simple truth and that was the case here: Ajax were better than Madrid.

Somehow, Ajax lost 2-1 in Amsterdam, the chance to progress seemingly escaping them against team that has shown a remarkable ability to prevail. No team has ever gone through after losing the first leg 2-1 at home and Sergio Ramos considered Madrid’s passage so certain that he sought a deliberate yellow card and a suspension. That decision looks daft now; he from the stands as watched Ajax won in a manner that was entirely incontestable.

Ajax knew they needed two and if the first leg had suggested they could get them, even the most optimistic would not have expected to get them so soon. Six minutes had gone when Toni Kroos, that “diesel-powered tractor” as Bernd Schuster had called him, had the ball taken from him. Tadic escaped up the right and pulled back for Ziyech to score with a finish as tidy as the move had been. Madrid were passive; Ajax were aggressive, the precision at pace impressive, the mastery of space even more so.

Ajax took control; Madrid, so vulnerable, lost it entirely, the early sense that this was slipping away already shared in the stands and increasing when a superb second goal arrived. Tadic performed a roulette, away from Casemiro, and slipped a perfectly weighted pass into the area. Neres, who a few minutes earlier had bamboozled Carvajal with a ludicrously brilliant piece of skill, took it round Courtois and finished.

The game had not even reached the 20th minute and Ajax had two. More might have followed in the first half, another wonderful pass from Tadic sending Neres through only for his lob over Courtois to drift wide. The way that came soon felt familiar, Frenkie de Jong, Donny van de Beek and Schöne picking Madrid’s players off. Ajax were dominant, Madrid desperate.

A wonderful ball from Daley Blind released Tadic, whose shot hit Courtois’s legs, and the Belgian made a sharp save from Ziyech. Madrid were overwhelmed, which is not to say that they had no opportunities. André Onana saved from Vázquez and they twice struck the frame. Raphaël Varane’s header thudded against the bar in the fourth minute before the tsunami started rolling and Bale hit the near post. Vinícius’s injury had come as he shot.

A second-half reaction, starting in the stands where roars replaced the resignation, did not last long. Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema had efforts but Ajax managed this marvellously. Van de Beek was denied by Courtois; Ziyech hit wide; and barely seconds after seeing Benzema step inside him and bed a shot just wide, Noussair Mazraoui was at the other end smashing into the side-netting. He then slid in to stop the ball going out and Ajax ran again, the ball worked to Tadic who curled into the top corner.

Their Ajax fans roared and then, like everyone, fell silent. Felix Brych, the referee, had his finger in his ear. The wait for the VAR was long, Brych pacing, listening, Madrid’s fate in the balance. Eventually, he pointed to the centre circle: goal! Asensio pulled one back but this was done, Schöne scoring a magnificent bending free kick from near the touchline that went over Courtois. Benzema slipped at the very end and a worse miss came from Ziyech, but it did not matter. Ajax had enough, Ajax had four.

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