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Liverpool’s backroom team was broken apart following the Premier League title win. John Heitinga, 41, was an assistant to Arne Slot throughout the 2024/25 campaign.
But the Dutchman found the opportunity to coach Ajax too hard to resist, returning to the club he represented in two spells as a player and also as an interim head coach.
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And Heitinga has already returned to Anfield in order totie up a deal for 23-year-old goalkeeper Vitezslav Jaros.
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The Czechia international played once for the Reds during the title-winning campaign - appearing in the closing stages of the away win at Crystal Palace back in October when Alisson Becker was injured.
Ajax reach agreement for Vitezslav Jaros
Jaros kept a clean sheet on that occasion but in truth a decisive breakthrough into the first team on Merseyside appears unlikely.
Although Caoimhin Kelleher is no longer standing in his way, Jaros has had to watch as both Giorgi Mamardashvili and Armin Pecsi come into the club this summer.
Accordingly the goalkeeper will have to strike out in search of first-team football next season and an agreement has now been reached over a loan deal to Heitinga’s Ajax.
That’s according to a new report in De Telegraaf, which claims the deal will be made official once Jaros completes a medical on either Tuesday or Wednesday this week.
Liverpool Vitezslav Jaros
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Jaros: "One of the greatest goalkeeping talents in Europe"
Furthermore, the report states that Jaros “is seen as one of the greatest goalkeeping talents in Europe.”
It will be a straight loan for the shot-stopper, who is also being tipped to sign an extension to a contract that currently expires in 2026.
It remains to be seen what the future holds for Jaros, who initially joined the Reds as a youth from Slavia Prague back in 2017.
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He has since experienced loans at St Patrick’s Athletic, Notts County, Stockport and Sturm Graz - where he won the Austrian league and cup double.