Barcelona and Ajax are in collaboration talks.

Sport says during the final stages of negotiating a deal for Frenkie de Jong, the idea arose of exploring an official alliance between the two teams.

Talks over Matthijs De Ligt are on track too and this could advance that idea.

The idea of forming a collaboration is about Barca having priority to sign players that come through at Ajax while they will welcome loan players from Barca.

Barca would be happy sending their best young players to Ajax to complete their development.