{"id":24725,"date":"2025-08-26T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:13:08","slug":"liverpool-agree-james-mcconnell-loan-with-ajax-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/24725\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool agree James McConnell loan with Ajax – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool midfielder James McConnell<\/a> is set to join Eredivisie giants Ajax on a season-long loan, with the youngster reuniting with head coach John Heitinga.<\/b><\/p>\n

McConnell has recovered from a niggling injury and spent recent weeks training with Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s first team while the club assessed widespread loan interest.<\/p>\n

Though the likes of West Brom<\/a>, Hull and Oxford United were exploring a deal for the 20-year-old, he will instead head abroad to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

This Is Anfield understands Liverpool have agreed a deal with Ajax which will see McConnell spend the 2025\/26 campaign working under Heitinga, who left Anfield to take the head coach job in May.<\/p>\n

McConnell will undergo a medical before finalising his switch, while also signing a new contract with the Premier League<\/a> champions as he is viewed as a long-term option for Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s first team.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have already loaned goalkeeper Vitezslav Jaros<\/a> to Ajax for the season, with their relationship with Heitinga clearly key to securing these agreements.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Ajax were short of options in the deep-lying midfield role following Jordan Henderson<\/a>\u2018s departure earlier in the summer, with McConnell poised to enjoy regular game time.<\/p>\n

His move to the Netherlands also provides the former Sunderland<\/a> academy graduate with further experience of European football, with Ajax entering the Champions League<\/a>\u2018s league phase.<\/p>\n

Heitinga has so far overseen two wins and a draw in his three Eredivisie games back at Ajax, including a 2-0 victory over Heracles on Sunday.<\/p>\n

McConnell\u2019s move will be formally announced in due course, and he is not likely to be the last player to leave Liverpool on loan before Monday\u2019s transfer deadline.<\/p>\n

Jayden Danns<\/a> and Kaide Gordon<\/a> are among those attracting interest, while AS Roma have made an approach for Kostas Tsimikas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool midfielder James McConnell is set to join Eredivisie giants Ajax on a season-long loan, with the youngster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,560,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-24725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}