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"Feyenoord have agreed to give Ajax permission to talk to the player," read a statement from the Feijnoord Stadium club.
It added the decision came at the 20-year-old midfielder's request after he "again expressed his desire to leave".
Feyenoord said the offer was unconditional and want the matter to be concluded by 30 June, while Ajax hope to agree personal terms "in the next few days".

"Ajax confirm they have made an offer to Feyenoord for the acquisition of the rights of the player Tonny Trindade de Vilhena," said the club from Amsterdam in a statement.
But the BBC's Steve Kingstone in Amsterdam stated that Ajax had yet to confirm the agreed price of £3m stated by Feyenoord.
A spokesman for Feyenoord's owners, insisted that the decision to sell Vilhena was taken solely by manager Pierre van Hoijdonk.
The spokesman told the BBC: "It was purely a football decision and had nothing to do with the financial structure of the club."




It is understood that the transfer fee would be made available for van Hooijdoonk to invest in the transfer market. Ajax’s highest ever sum used in a transfer was 16 million euro’s in 2008 when they signed Miralem Sulejmani.

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That deal was sealed by the ambition of returning Ajax manager Marco van Basten, who previously led the dutch club from 2008 to 2009 - during the famous period where Ajax had a huge drop in form and ender 3rd in the Eredivise.
Marco van Basten has previously made it clear he would do "everything possible" to sign Vilhena.
There have been reports that Ajax will have to pay a £2m as well as the original transfer sum over a period of 12 months.

Ajax didn’t get Vilhena without a fight, cause not only Feyenoord wanted Tony, but Arsenal, Manchester United and PSG as well. It started of with romours about Manchester United wanting the talented 20-year old, but a formal bid never came. The Red Devils were the favourites to capture Vilhena for a long time, but that was before Paris saint-garmain came on the pitch. The media turned around and were starting to say that Manchester United was giving up on Tony cause PSG already had a bid accepted. What the media didn’t know, was that there never acctually were any officially bids made yet. Only roumors starting to get out of hand.
Feyenoord was starting to feel the pressure, and so was Vilhena himself. He asked the club to let him go many on many different acations, but the club from Rotterdam rejected his request. When Vilhena got so mad that he dismissed training sessions, didn’t want to play any matches and was threatning to go out to the media with this, Feyenoord gave up. The questions now were only, who will get Vilhena and how much money do Feyenoord get for the transfer?
The first official bid came from Arsenal. 700k was not enough to impress Feyenoord manager Pierre van Hooijdonk. Manchester United then got back in the fight and put in a bid as well. 1,2 m was still not enough to impress van Hooijdonk. Vilhena was starting to get seriously mad, and Feyenoord had to sell him. PSG then made a bid of 2,9m. The offer got accepted and Vilhena was allowed to talk with PSG about any potenitial contract. Ajax though, who were never even in the fight of getting Vihena, came with a bid as well. 3m + 2m extra over a period of 12 months. The offer was to good to reject. Vilhena went to Ajax to discuss contract offers with them.



“Tony was very unsure at the beginning, but as he is still a young man with aims of becoming one of the best in the world, he wanted to go to Ajax. Mainly because of the youth facilities and his development but as Ajax is a club in Holland, Tony won’t have to leave the country.”

These were the words of the happy agent of Tony Vilhena. Manger Pierre van Hooijdonk was not to happy with his own youngster though.

“I asked Vilhena wether he wanted to go to our rivals Ajax or PSG. When I heard the answer I got very dissapointed. He would have gotten a better treatment by the fans, by their manager and by our own fans. It is dissapointing to see such a good young talent leave to a club such as Ajax, thinking about our history. I wish him the best of luck in the future.”

Today Betweters talked to Tony Vilhena after the presentation, the main question was: Why Ajax?

“First of all, congrats with your transfer Tony, are you happy?”

“Thank you. Well of course I’m happy otherwise I wouldn’t have choose this club”

“You seem very happy with your new club, but why the rivals, Ajax, and not PSG, Manchester United or Arsenal?”

“I talked with my father and my best friend Toy, and with my old youth coach, Willem van Hanegem. We talked about a move to the European top or one step underneath it, Ajax. We decided that it was not smart to join the European top, I don’t want to wait for years before I can play, it’s not good for me, I think not many ever suceed who immediately joins a top team. For example Royston Drenthe. But the only other team was Ajax. I think Ajax has got the best youth academy of Europe, they can give me a lot of chances.”

“Do you think the fans are going to accept you?”

“Well, I of course know about the rivalry between these two amazing clubs but, I don’t think it’s going to be a problem. My friend Jean-Paul is going to the same now, which will help me out a lot.”

“Do you think you can be important for this team?

“I think I can be important for Ajax these years, but I can’t say anything more now”