In 2012, Wim Jonk told the Ajax board they would laugh at a reluctance to invest an extra 200,000 euros into the club’s academy because they would have 200m euros sitting in the bank five years later.

Jonk’s promise took a little longer to deliver but the Eredivisie champions have surpassed that figure in the past two summers alone by selling on their best young talent, with the big-money departures of Matthijs de Ligt to Juventus and Frenkie de

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