Lasse Abildgaard has claimed that he rejected Manchester United before choosing to join ‘big club’ Ajax in the most recent summer transfer window.
The 17-year-old spent a week at Carrington last year on trial and has said in a new interview that it was him and his team who took the decision not to stay.
Abildgaard insists Ajax was the ‘best’ option for him and following a two-week trial with the Dutch club, they handed him a three-year deal in July 2023.
The Danish youth international, who plays as a winger, was added to Ajax’s U17s squad and is waiting to make his first-team debut.
‘I went to trial training down there [at Manchester United] to see what it was like,’ Abildgaard told Tipsbladet.
‘We ended up making the decision that it was the best for me [to join Ajax instead].’
Abildgaard is loving life at Ajax as he added: ‘It is of course great to be allowed to join such a club, and to be good enough for such a big club to believe in you.
‘Every day you come in, there are expensive cars, you see the Ajax logo, there are [security] guards outside, there are a lot of training sessions.
‘It’s just great to put on the Ajax training clothes every day. I heard about [Ajax’s] interest a long time ago.
‘And then it was like just a process between the club and my family and my advisor about how it should go, and things like that.’
