He will travel to Newcastle on Monday for the inspection. The transfer is also good news for Ajax, which negotiated a resale percentage of ten percent of the profit with Botman’s switch to Lille and thus collect 2.9 million euros. Lille paid the Amsterdammers 9 million euros at the time.
At Ajax, Botman never made minutes in the first team, but after many appearances for Young Ajax, sc Heerenveen hired him. After a good season in Friesland, OSC Lille took him over from Ajax. In two years he made 79 appearances for the Northern French and won Ligue 1 in 2021.
Due to his transfer, he is now the fourth most expensive defender ever after Virgil van Dijk, Matthijs de Ligt and Nathan Ake.