'Feyenoord withdraws from negotiations'

Feyenoord will not be Couhaib Driouech's new employer, he assures 1908.nl and is confirmed by PSV watcher Rik Elfrink. The fan medium writes that the Rotterdammers have withdrawn from the negotiations. This leaves PSV as the only candidate to sign Excelsior's star, although Excelsior's technical manager Niels van Duinen states that no agreement has yet been reached with any club.

For days the question has been whether Driouech will leave and to which club he would leave. Both PSV and Feyenoord have shown concrete interest in the Excelsior attacker, who would like to take a step higher.

According to 1908.nl Excelsior demands too much money for Driouech, which has made Feyenoord decide to stop negotiations. “After a final offer was rejected by the Kralingers at the beginning of the evening, decisions were made at administrative level at Feyenoord,” the fan medium writes.

“Driouech costs far too much money, which is why Leo Sauer now remains at Feyenoord. A contract extension beckons for the Slovak.” Sauer would be rented out to Excelsior in the event of a transfer from Driouech, but according to the latest reports, that will no longer happen.

It creates a rather bizarre situation. Excelsior wants to strengthen itself with Sauer, but Feyenoord does not want to go as far for Driouech as PSV. “But it is not plausible that Feyenoord will cooperate in a rental of Sauer if Driouech goes to PSV,” writes Marco Timmer of Football International.

No agreement yet

Technical manager Niels van Duinen of Excelsior reports ESPN that no agreement has yet been reached. “The current state of affairs is that two specific clubs have registered. For us, the starting point was to work towards a transfer in the summer. Then you also know how it works when top clubs in the Netherlands register for your player. But we The starting point has always been that our objectives and ambitions should not be jeopardized.”

“At the moment there is no agreement with any club. That does not alter the fact that if you lose your best player, this must be absorbed if you want to realize the objectives that we have and that also fit our ambitions for the future. .”

Earlier in the day, PSV submitted a bid worth four million euros to Excelsior. In contrast to Feyenoord, the Eindhoven team still seems to be in the race to sign Driouech. Feyenoord previously seemed to go all out for Driouech after the arrival of Bryan Gil from Tottenham Hotspur failed, but it seems that PSV is now the clear favorite to get Driouech.

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