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AJAX boss Frank de Boer has turned down an approach from Liverpool FC to discuss the vacant manager’s job.

The 42-year-old Dutchman was on the list of around a dozen candidates owners Fenway Sports Group were keen to speak to in their search to find Kenny Dalglish’s successor.

However, De Boer, who has led Ajax to back to back Eredivisie titles, has spurned their advances and says he wants to stay in his homeland.

“I am honoured by the request, but I am only just getting started with Ajax,” De Boer said.

“In Amsterdam we are on a new path and, along with the club and Wim Jonk and Dennis Bergkamp, my colleagues in the technical heart, I want to bring good things. That’s why I will stay loyal to Ajax in the coming years.”

The former Barcelona and Rangers defender, who won 112 caps for his country, has won an army of admirers for the fluid attacking football he has installed at Ajax since taking over in December 2010.

De Boer ruling himself out of the running comes after Swansea’s Brendan Rodgers and Borussia Dortmund’s Jurgen Klopp also informed FSG they don’t wish to be considered for the Anfield role.

Liverpool have been granted permission by Wigan to speak to Roberto Martinez and they are also expected to hold talks with former Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas.

Villas-Boas, whose brief tenure at Stamford Bridge was ended in March, has said he’s in no rush to decide where his next job will be.

“I’m still choosing the right project and that decision will take the necessary time,” he said.

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