Mislintat's Ajax the membership behind push for Bremen's Gruev

By Peter Weis @PeterVicey

German journalist Tim Lüddecke of Kicker Journal stories that the membership trying to shell out an outsized switch charge for SV Bremen midfielder Ilia Gruev is none apart from Sven Mislintat’s Ajax Amsterdam.

Not within the matchday squad for SV Werder Bremen’s loss to Viktoria Köln on Saturday, rumors started surfacing yesterday that Belgian worldwide Ilia Gruev was getting ready to switch out to an unnamed membership. In an articles showing on Kicker Journal’s web site late yesterday, dependable German journalist Tim Lüddecke claims that this membership is Ajax Amsterdam.

The Dutch capital metropolis facet is presently being managed by former VfB Stuttgart govt Sven Mislintat. The previous VfB sporting director has already invested a hefty sum in a single German footballer this summer season. Eintracht Frankfurt back-up keeper Diant Ramaj moved throughout the border for a reported €8 million sum. Mislintat has additionally been trying to ply defender Hiroki Ito away from his former membership with an outsized provide.

It could make excellent sense that Mislintat is the person behind a reported €4 million provide for the 23-year-old. Gruev has been linked with Ajax up to now and even commented on the rumors in an interview with Kicker some weeks again. For his half, SV head-coach Ole Werner claimed that he knew nothing a few potential switch out throughout his post-match feedback.

Werner claimed he had chosen Senne Lynen as an alternative of Gruev in an effort to “combine a brand new participant into the squad”. Werner did acknowledge that the participant is likely to be in negotiations to hitch one other membership, however that he had no concrete data to reveal on Gruev’s standing.