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Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup is ­unlikely to enter Holland until his court case over a £2.5million tax dispute is cleared up.

The Danish boss was due to fly to Holland ­yesterday morning to watch Swansea City’s youth team in a ­European Under-19 tournament in The Hague.

Laudrup abandoned that trip and on ­Friday morning a major Dutch national ­newspaper ran an advert placed by Ajax ­requesting details of Laudrup’s whereabouts.

The Amsterdam club want him to appear in front of ­magistrates over ­unpaid tax bills relating to his time as a player with Ajax, the club he left in 1997.

Swansea City director John van Zweden said: “I have spoken to Michael at length about this tax issue. He is shocked. Ajax have portrayed him as a criminal, as a tramp ­without a proper address or place to live.

“They have advertised they don’t know where Michael Laudrup is and therefore ­summoned him via a legal advert to ­appear in court within two months.

“We are talking about the manager of Swansea City. Ajax make out this is a criminal who is hiding and sleeping under ­bridges next to a river.

“The entire world knows where Michael Laudrup is. Everyone knows he is the manager of Swansea City.’’

An Ajax spokesman said: “This is the formal procedure for legal action when the ­person involved is not ­living in the ­Netherlands or does not have a ­permanent ­address abroad.

“It is a big debate about gross and net wages, which were paid to Laudrup. We can do ­nothing else but ask the ­players from that time to pay us the money back, which they should have paid to the tax man.’’

Swansea are set to kick off their pre-season ­preparations in Holland, where they are due to play Excelsior Maassluis on July 7.