Thilo Kehrer

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Process

Marked for Thilo Kehrer

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The Ajax Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

$14.2M settles it between the clubs for Kévin Denkey

FC Cincinnati have accepted the money. What Ajax do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Match

No mercy from Ajax

Sparta Rotterdam will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ajax were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Wilfried Singo

Ajax asked and Galatasaray said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings

A brace, and Davy Klaassen takes the afternoon — 8.17

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Davy Klaassen provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Steven Berghuis turns Eintracht Braunschweig down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

No deal for Wassim Bouziane at that price

Ajax offered $4.4M; AZ said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Business is business: Maarten Paes goes

Heerenveen paid $5.2M and Ajax took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Everton join the queue for Kasper Dolberg

Add another name to the list: Everton have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kasper Dolberg. The answer from Ajax has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Ajax

Thilo Kehrer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Ajax Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Ajax rebuffed over Kobbie Mainoo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Manchester United have kept their man, and Ajax go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Davy Klaassen says no to Darmstadt 98

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Davy Klaassen had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

An offer of $4.4M for Wassim Bouziane

Ajax have gone to AZ with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

Heracles come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ajax did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Youri Baas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Youri Baas commits to Ajax for another 5 years.

Boardroom

Ajax go back to the board over Wassim Bouziane

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.7M — a club that wants Wassim Bouziane enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A falling-out at Ajax

Thilo Kehrer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Youri Baas knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ajax, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Nobody at Ajax has picked up the phone to Caio Henrique

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief