Ajax tipped to cancel Liverpool transfer amid John Heitinga sack fallout

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Heitinga lasted six months in his second spell in charge at Ajax, before being sacked after winning just four of his 13 games since leaving Liverpool. His time back in Amsterdam was brief but proved influential in the shaping of the squad over the summer, not least with deals to sign Vitezslav Jaros and James McConnell on loan.

Neither found themselves part of caretaker head coach Fred Grim’s plans for the first game since Heitinga’s dismissal – and Dutch journalist Johan Inan believes McConnell could be sent back to Liverpool. Why Ajax could terminated James McConnell loan “Crazy.

Ajax knew back in January or February that Jordan Henderson would be leaving,” Inan told the AD Voetbal podcast, when discussing the late-August deal to sign McConnell. Liverpool’s plans if McConnell or Jaros return A return for Jaros cannot be ruled out at this stage either, with the goalkeeper having lost his place in the side to 42-year-old Remko Pasveer and subsequently being left out of the Czechia squad this month.