Six years on the Rock end with a 13 million euro goodbye
Thirty-nine assists. That number followed Caio Henrique around Monaco for most of his stay, and now it follows him out the door. The Brazilian left-back has joined Ajax Amsterdam, the Dutch club confirmed on Tuesday, closing a six-season chapter on the Côte d’Azur.
He leaves after 211 appearances in red and white. Ajax are paying roughly 10 million euros up front, with another 3 million tied to bonuses and a 25 percent sell-on clause baked into the agreement. The figures match what had been circulating since the middle of June, so nobody in either dressing room was caught off guard.
Jordi Cruyff did not bother playing it cool. Ajax’s technical director had been chasing this signing for weeks. “We have been working very hard for some time to bring in Caio Henrique,” he said in the club’s statement, pointing to the 28-year-old’s experience and leadership as the qualities he wanted most. A rebuilding Ajax side needed a steadying voice down the left, and they think they have found one.
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Monaco were not about to let him walk out quietly. The club dropped a montage of his best moments on X, then handed him the kind of stat that sticks: second-highest assist provider at the club this century, 39 in total, sitting just behind Aleksandr Golovin and his 43. Close, but never quite top of the pile.
“Thank you Caio Henrique for these six seasons, your commitment and all the moments shared in red and white. Good luck for the rest of your career,” the message read.
His final campaign tells you why the gap he leaves matters. Twenty-two Ligue 1 outings, nine in the Champions League, three more in the Coupe de France. That is a starter, not a squad filler. Monaco’s recruitment team now have a hole on the left flank and a summer that suddenly got busier.
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