The 19-year-old has made over 100 first-team appearances since emerging from Ajax’s famous academy system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hato still has three years left to run on his current deal, but that appears to be a strong chance that he will leave the Amsterdam Arena this summer.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, it was reported that Chelsea had made contact <\/a>with Ajax over a potential move for the versatile defender.<\/p>\n Hato’s agent subsequently admitted<\/a> that his client was in talks over a move to join the Club World Cup winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hato misses Ajax friendly amid Chelsea talks<\/p>\n Having made progress in negotiations, Chelsea are now believed to be close<\/a> to reaching an agreement with Ajax over a transfer worth around \u00a334.5m.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ajax have dropped a major hint that a move is getting nearer after he sat out Thursday’s friendly against Scottish champions Celtic.<\/p>\n Hato was named in the 29-man travelling party earlier this week, but he was a notable absentee from the matchday squad for the meeting in Como.<\/p>\n John Heitinga<\/a>‘s side ultimately coped well with Hato’s absence, as they cruised to a 5-1 victory following a Steven Berghuis<\/a> brace and goals from Davy Klaassen<\/a>, Aaron Bouwman<\/a> and Rayane Bounida<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why Hato can be valuable to Maresca<\/p>\n Chelsea appear to be on course to sign a player who has also been linked with Premier League rivals Arsenal and Liverpool.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hato could be a valuable addition to Enzo Maresca’s squad due to his ability to play in central defence and as a left-back.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maresca may be keen to have another central defensive option, with Axel Disasi and Renato Veiga set to depart and uncertainty surrounding the futures of Trevoh Chalobah and Tosin Adarabioyo.<\/p>\n Hato can also provide viable competition for first-choice left-back Marc Cucurella, while he can also act as cover if the Spaniard needs rest or is out with injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n ID:577958:1false2false3false: from db desktop :LenBod:collect4101:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea receive a major hint as one of their transfer targets sits out a pre-season friendly amid talks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[29214,464,1083,1085,399,1080,427,349,1082,1084,1081,403,1079,99,1087,1086,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-35539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ajax","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-epl","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-golf","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-olympics","17":"tag-premier-league","18":"tag-rugby","19":"tag-soccer","20":"tag-sport","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-sports-mole","23":"tag-teams","24":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jorrel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/sportsmole-media-prod.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net\/25\/12\/jorrel-hato.jpg\"\/)
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