United And Arsenal On Alert As Huntelaar's Contract Talks Stall

Ajax technical director Danny Blind admitted to De Telegraaf
that contract talks had failed in large part because Huntelaar
wanted a release clause written into the deal but felt Ajax
wanted to set the price too high.


'When you look at the Ajax salary structure he could get a
huge deal,' Blind said. 'But he doesn't want to see a release
clause set at 25million euros (?19.75million) in his contract.
We didn't want to go any lower.'

However, Blind insists the breakdown in talks does not mean
Huntelaar will leave the club any time soon.


'We don't want to see Klaas Jan leave us,' he said. 'The bar
is high. We would like to keep our top scorer in Amsterdam.
If he doesn't want to sign a new contract, he still has a deal
for the next two years.'

Blind also holds out hope that Huntelaar might reconsider.


'The negotiations are stalled,' he said. 'We have agreed on the
fact that Ajax will speak with all clubs that come in for Huntelaar.
If the interested clubs don't want to pay what we we ask for,
then we hope that we can start new talks with Klaas Jan again.'.

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