Arne Slot hopes that Jens Toornstra will also play for Feyenoord next season. The experienced midfielder has an expiring contract and is open to a longer stay at the club from Rotterdam South, although the club itself has not yet wanted to set a date for a meeting. Slot also did not want to dwell on the continuity of Guus Til the day before the Conference League match with Slavia Prague, also because no option to buy is included in the lease with Spartak Moscow.
“It’s great that Jens wants to stay and he plays everything. We also want to continue with him. But for further questions about contracts, you should contact Frank Arnesen,” Slot referred to the technical director of Feyenoord on Thursday. Talks about extending the contract are still not planned and that is a remarkable situation in the view of Leegreg Fer of the Wasserman Group, partly because Toornstra is seen as an exemplary professional within the club and he was also one of the first to do so. wanted to hand in salary to meet Feyenoord during the corona period.
“Jens does experience that he is respected at the club for what he has meant and still means to Feyenoord as a player. You would like to see that respect reflected in contract extension, or at least an attempt to do so. No date has yet been set for discussions, but the management has indicated that this will happen. I think it is a good thing for all parties that there will be clarity about Jens’ future in the long term. We’ll wait and see,” Fer told Football International.
Slot does not know whether there is a chance that Til can stay in De Kuip after this season. “I am not thinking about next season yet. There is no option to buy. It is good for him and for Feyenoord that he is performing as he is now. It will be a challenge for him to maintain that.” Til has scored eleven goals in thirteen official appearances for Feyenoord so far. “I realized very quickly that we needed Guus. His depth is very useful.”
“His tremendous dynamism in pressure is also very important to us. He can really get people off the ball,” Slot sums up. “That is very important in pressure. You saw that a lot at Ajax – Besiktas, that Ajax players conquer the ball on the basis of physicality. The past two years of Guus were not a resounding success. So I was hopeful that it was feasible, provided it was financially feasible. That took some effort, because we couldn’t cover his entire salary.”
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