Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 08:27• Last update: 08:38

Kenneth Perez considers the arrival of Steven Bergwijn to Ajax unnecessary. The Times reported Monday that Tottenham Hotspur will take the next eight games to make a decision about the future of the 24-year-old attacker. Perez asks himself in the program football talk by ESPN wonder whether Ajax will improve qualitatively if David Neres leaves and Bergwijn returns in his place.

“He was a bit combined with Neres for this. That it would be the ideal upgrade if you can sell Neres in the winter. You will improve qualitatively if you can rent Bergwijn”, explains Freek Jansen, Ajax watcher on behalf of Football International, from. “Do you really think so?” Perez responds. “We have also seen Neres in different ways than this season. You know Bergwijn too, don’t you?”

Jansen emphasizes that Neres ‘has fallen far away’, while presenter Milan van Dongen states that Bergwijn is now in better shape than the Brazilian. “Because he scored for the Dutch? He never plays for Tottenham, so we can’t judge it,” Perez replied. Bergwijn has played eleven games for Tottenham this season, six of which as a basic player and in which he provided one assist. However, since the arrival of Antonio Conte as manager, he only came in for a total of thirteen minutes as a substitute.

“You can’t see where he is now based on a long series of matches,” Perez continues. “Against Norway he scored a super important goal (for the Dutch, ed.), but not of that. He has become more of a hard worker. Neres is someone who can be very useful in a small space. He is now alone far behind Antony. They are friends, with that jumping (as a goal celebration, ed.) and all that hassle. But you don’t play, so that must have done something to him. And Berghuis can also play in that position. So I think Bergwijn is quite unnecessary.”