KJH: Royal Striker making 3.6 Mio per season

According to the Spanish media, KJH will earn 3.6 million euro per season. Not bad. He will surely be able to find a new hairdresser in Madrid? Hunter’s contract commences on January 2 and the royals hope to be able to present their new player on that day.

Which means that Klaas Jan played his last game for Ajax against Sparta, the match inwhich he got injured.

Technical manager Danny Blind: “It’s not sure yet, but it’s realistic that Klaas Jan won’t wear the Ajax jersey anymore. There’s two games to go until the 2nd of January and I’m not sure we should take the risk in playing him.”

Ajax expects to have Huntelaar’s successor in Amsterdam already: Dario Cvitanich. Blind: ,,Cvitanich
was signed early in April already because we feared Klaas Jan could be going. We will look around for another signing, but we don’t plan to spend a lot of money.”

Danny Blind was positive about Huntelaar’s move to Madrid. “He was with us for three years. So, this is a good step up for him. I think he deserved this transfer. At Ajax, we’ll do deals when we like the contents of the deal, the condition, but timing is important too. We went far to keep Klaas in Amsterdam, in our negotiations with him, but it didn’t pan out. There’s always tensions when you’re dealing with these kinds of big deals, but Real Madrid operated professionally and sincere. The communications were open and respectful.”

Coach Marco van Basten has mixed feelings. “I do think he deserves this and I am happy for him, but from my perspective, I wanted him to stay until the summer. I wanted to win the title with him, and I know he wanted to do the same. But, it’s logical that Real came. And when a club like Madrid knocks on the door it’s very hard to keep it shut. We also have to look towards the future and we can’t risk that for one player.”

In the summer of 2008, Ajax said no to an offer of 40 million euros from Manchester City. Van Basten was pleased with that position, but seems to have accepted that the pulling power of Madrid was stronger.

“Congrats with this fantastic club. And cool that you’ll be playing with your mates. Enjoy!”

That was Van Basten’s text message to injured striker Huntelaar, who moves to Spain for 4,5 years.

Huntelaar: “I received so many warm messages from people at Ajax. That is so cool. They all seem to understand why I leave. It’s hard for me to express my feelings, you know? I’m happy, euphoric, but also sad. And grateful. I don’t know…”

Hunter: “It shoots through my mind all the time: soon I can put on that famous jersey. Play in Bernabeu. I think all players would have that. That stadium, man… I signed for 4.5 years, which apparently is the maximum contract period. I didn’t know that. I wanted to sign for 5.5 years, hahaha…”

” I am happy, but also busy, packing my bags. We’ll go to Madrid on Wednesday. And what do I wear when I sign? I do have suit, but I never wear it so it could easily be too small. I’m annoyed that they didn’t let me know they’d finish the talks so quickly, because I could have gone into town to get a new suit.”

Indeed, the pace inwhich this deal was closed is remarkable. 24 hours after the rumors, the deal was done. Chairman Calderon gave manager Mijatovic carte blanche to sign the prolific international.

A part of the amount will be paid to SC Heerenveen (2 million euros).