Danilo Doekhi has enjoyed interest from foreign clubs in recent months, but Feyenoord also wanted to do business. According to the Thursday edition of The Telegraph the Rotterdam club reported to Vitesse before choosing the Austrian Gernot Trauner from LASK Linz. It soon became clear that supply and demand were too great.
Feyenoord inquired at Vitesse about the conditions to buy off Doekhi’s one-year contract with the Gelderlanders. According to Arnhem, the amount that the Rotterdammers wanted to spend on the 23-year-old defender was discussed The Telegraph ‘jokingly said they couldn’t even get one leg from the defender for that’.
Doekhi himself ignored other options and so the nephew of former football player Winston Bogarde will almost certainly play his first official game of the season against Dundalk on Thursday evening. “It is wonderful to experience European football and it is a compliment that I can do that as captain”, emphasizes the defender, who has taken over the captain’s armband from Remko Pasveer who left for Ajax.
“The transfer market is still open for a month. At the moment I am fully focused on Vitesse.” Doekhi does not completely rule out a transfer later this month, but is open to a longer stay in GelreDome if there is no departure. In recent months, the former Ajax and Excelsior player was mainly associated with a transfer to the Premier League in England and Scotland. The names of Fulham, Rangers and Newcastle United fell.
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