The hefty price tag of Joey Veerman makes it questionable whether he will leave for Feyenoord in January. Attracting the sc Heerenveen midfielder in the summer months is also not excluded in South Rotterdam. Veerman, who is still under contract in Friesland for 2.5 years, would like nothing more than to move to De Kuip. At Feyenoord, there are reservations about the continuation of a winter transfer.
“We have reported, but it could also only be before the summer,” an insider from Feyenoord said on Friday. General Newspaper know. “It’s a puzzle.” Ferry de Haan waits it all calmly on behalf of Heerenveen. “The situation is simple,” says the technical manager of the Frisians. “Feyenoord has reported again. It is certainly not the case that we have to sell Veerman to keep our heads above water. But Heerenveen is a club that relies on buying and selling.”
Fulco van Kooperen finds an amount of ‘around six million euros’ plus a resale percentage that is in line with the market for his client Joey Veerman. The agent, who represents Veerman’s interests together with Nikkie Bruinenberg, confirmed to on Thursday The Telegraph that Feyenoord ‘would like’ to strengthen itself with the playmaker. “If they start asking Feyenoord eight million, it will be difficult. Just like for AZ, which was also very interested. Heerenveen knows that too, because they did not receive the amounts. That’s why he didn’t leave last summer. But now he has to go and they know it. That is why Heerenveen want to cooperate in a transfer. But for how much?”
The higher the fixed transfer fee, the lower the resale percentage, Van Kooperen knows. The same applies vice versa. “AZ was around five million and twenty percent resale last summer. Heerenveen didn’t do that, because they couldn’t get anyone. That argument no longer holds: now they know in time,” said the representative on Thursday. It General Newspaper points out that Feyenoord does not have six million euros in cash, but also hopes that the amount will be available soon or that Heerenveen is currently satisfied with less through a construction.
Technical director Frank Arnesen will therefore have to sell players to attract Veerman or come up with a construction with, for example, a large resale percentage to convince De Haan. It cannot be ruled out that the arrival of Veerman can be made possible with the help of investors. After all, the club from Rotterdam seems to be a serious title candidate, with four points less than leader PSV, and also winters in Europe.