Source: Liverpool's Heitinga can begin Ajax talks

Liverpool person granted adjunct manager John Heitinga support to participate talks with Ajax implicit becoming their caller caput coach, a root has told ESPN.

Heitinga joined Liverpool past summer, having spent the erstwhile play arsenic portion of the coaching unit astatine West Ham. The 41-year-old has been an integral portion of Arne Slot's backroom unit this term, helping Liverpool to clinch the Premier League title.

Heitinga enjoyed 2 abstracted spells arsenic a subordinate with Ajax arsenic good arsenic earning 87 planetary caps for the Netherlands. He besides represented Atletico Madrid, Everton, Fulham and Hertha Berlin during his playing vocation earlier retiring successful 2016.

The Dutchman began his coaching vocation arsenic a younker manager astatine Ajax earlier becoming caput manager of their elder broadside successful January 2023. The Dutchman could present beryllium acceptable for a instrumentality to Amsterdam, with Ajax brag Francesco Farioli having stepped down pursuing a spectacular illness that saw his squad suffer the Eredivise rubric to PSV Eindhoven aft surrendering a nine-point pb successful the last 5 games of the campaign.

When asked past week astir the imaginable of Heitinga's exit, Slot said: "If Ajax would beryllium smart, they would see him. He is acceptable to instrumentality connected a occupation similar that. If John is smart, helium would enactment 1 much season."

Should Heitinga depart this summer, Liverpool would look to name a caller subordinate to the coaching unit arsenic they bid to clasp the Premier League rubric adjacent season.