{"id":317655,"date":"2025-08-04T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317655\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:13:14","slug":"gladbach-reject-ajaxs-initial-bid-for-itakura-reports-sky-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317655\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladbach reject Ajax&#8217;s initial bid for Itakura, reports Sky Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ultan Corcoran<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/UltanCorcoran\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:100%;color:#1da1f2;\" rel=\"noopener\">@UltanCorcoran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Die Fohlen are not moved by the Eredivisie club&#8217;s first approach. <\/p>\n<p>Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach have rejected Ajax\u2019s first written offer for Ko Itakura, Sky Germany&#8217;s sources believe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bid was reportedly well below the club\u2019s valuation set by Die Fohlen who finished in tenth-place last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gladbach are demanding at least \u20ac10million plus bonuses just to enter negotiations with with the Amsterdam side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An agreement is currently not in sight, with Borussia \u00a0prepared to let Itakura enter the final year of his contract if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2024\/25 campaign, the 28-year-old Japanese international made 31 Bundesliga appearances while scoring 3 goals.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ultan Corcoran@UltanCorcoran Die Fohlen are not moved by the Eredivisie club&#8217;s first approach. Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach have rejected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-317655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114971620582663566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}