Graziano Pellè may return in Feyenoord’s shirt next season, know La Gazzetta dello Sport to report on Tuesday. The 36-year-old striker is currently without a club and could enter his second term in South Rotterdam. Pellè previously played for Feyenoord between 2012 and 2014 and quickly became a crowd favorite in De Kuip. An earlier attempt by Feyenoord to bring back the striker came to nothing.
Pellè first came to Feyenoord in 2012, when the Rotterdam club rented him from Parma. The attack leader soon had it on his hips in De Kuip and managed to score 29 times in 33 games in his first season with Feyenoord. The rental period went so well that Feyenoord decided to take him over permanently from Parma in 2013. After another productive season (26 goals in 33 games), he moved to Southampton, where he continued to act under the wing of Ronald Koeman.
Feyenoord previously made an attempt to bring Pellè back to Rotterdam. The Italian was according to The Telegraph however, ‘far too expensive’, after which Feyenoord switched to Lucas Pratto. Pellè then decided to return to Serie A after eight years at Parma, where he was relegated from Serie A. The attacker also played in Italy for Lecce, Catania, Crotone, Cesena, Parma and Sampdoria, before being picked up by Feyenoord in 2012. became. In between, he was also active at AZ. Via Feyenoord and Southampton, he ended up in China in the summer of 2016, where he spent more than four years.
According to the above pink sports newspaper, Pellè currently has several options to continue his career, Feyenoord is one of them. In addition, the striker has the opportunity to remain active in Italy, where Venezia and Salernitana have expressed their interest. Both clubs were promoted to the highest level last season. Due to the imminent departure of Nicolai Jörgensen, Feyenoord is still looking for a new center striker. Jörgensen has expressed his wish to leave the club management of Feyenoord and has since been kept out of the selection by Arne Slot.
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