Ajax signs €12.5m Marin to replace De Jong
Ajax announced the signing of Razvan Marin in a €12.5million deal that will see the midfielder replace Frenkie de Jong for the Eredivisie club ahead of 2019-2020.
De Jong will depart for Barcelona at the end of the season in a switch worth a potential €86m but Ajax has already moved to bring in a successor.
Romania international Marin will join on a five-year contract from Standard Liege but the 22-year-old says he should not be directly compared to De Jong.
"I want just to be me," Marin said. "I saw that everyone compared me with Frenkie but I think we are two different styles of players because he plays more in front of the defence.
"He stays there, he has good quality of passes, he can eliminate [players] during the games. I'm more dynamic. I like to go into the opposition box, to score, to help my team with how I compete."
Ajax, two points behind PSV in the Eredivisie title race, faces Juventus in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
