After six and a half years, Andre Onana will probably leave Ajax Amsterdam. The goalkeeper should be drawn to Olympique Lyon in France.
Goalkeeper Andre Onana from the Dutch champions Ajax Amsterdam has apparently agreed on a transfer with the French first division club Olympique Lyon. The French newspaper reports The team.
The 25-year-old Cameroonian, who has been serving a doping ban that has been in effect until the beginning of November since February, and his advisors have therefore been working on the move to Lyon for a few weeks. At OL, he is considered the preferred player of the new coach Peter Bosz, with whom he once worked at Ajax.
Andre Onana: Ajax and Lyon still have to agree on a transfer fee
An agreement between the two clubs on a transfer fee is still pending. Noisy The team Ajax is said to have initially demanded 14 million euros, but since Onana’s contract in Amsterdam expires in 2022, the Dutch have now probably lowered the price to eight million euros. The latest offer from Lyons is, according to the report, six million euros plus some bonus payments and could satisfy Ajax.
Onana moved from FC Barcelona U19 to Amsterdam at the beginning of 2015. The goalkeeper played a total of 204 competitive games for the Dutch, the last before the doping ban at the end of January this year in a 3-0 win against AZ Alkmaar in the Eredivisie.
At Lyon, Onana would fight for the regular place in the goal with the Portuguese Anthony Lopes. The former German U21 national goalkeeper Julian Pollersbeck, who moved from Hamburger SV to OL last year, would then only be number 3.
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