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AJAX Amsterdam plan to sell their interest in Ajax Cape Town because the relationship between the two entities has soured, Sunday World has learned. The Dutch club own 51% of the Urban Warriors while the Efstathiou family has 49% control.

According to a well-placed source, Ajax Amsterdam intend selling their controlling stake allegedly because the relationship between the two parties has soured.

As far as I know they haven’t had a board meeting for two years. They are not on the same page,” the source revealed.

The source further revealed that Ajax Amsterdam previously attempted to part with their shares and approached Ajax Cape Town’s former chairman John Comitis to check whether he would be interested in returning to the club as a majority shareholder, but he turned them down because the Comitises and Efstathiouses don’t see eye-to-eye.

The Comitis brothers, John and George, left Ajax Cape Town in July 2013 after they decided to sell their shares, and at the time it was reported that their decision was with the view to end an alleged boardroom feud with the Efstathiou family that was affecting the running of the club.

Approached for comment, John confirmed Ajax Amsterdam’s offer to possibly purchase the controlling stake.

That was a year ago... I hope you understand what it means buying it (51% stake), because the last thing I want is to enter into a business with conflicts from day one. So it was something I had to work out and it didn’t appeal to me at the time,” Comitis explained. We don’t see eye-to-eye on a business level, that’s it. It is as simple as that.”

Ajax Amsterdam financial director Jeroen Slop refused to comment on the claims they were looking for a way out.

I will talk to you next week when we are in Cape Town,” Slop said.

Ajax Amsterdam are also apparently unhappy that since the partnership started in the late 1990s, their Cape Town satellite football club has produced only three players for them.

Ajax Cape Town was formed in 1998 through the merger of Cape Town clubs, namely Seven Stars and Cape Town Spurs.

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