According to Valentijn Driessen, nothing stands in the way of a transfer from Steven Berghuis to Ajax, he says in the online show of The Telegraph. According to the daily newspaper’s football chief, Berghuis is indeed interested in a transfer to Amsterdam and all signals are green for the parties involved. Driessen also reports that the first negative messages from Feyenoord supporters have arrived at Berghuis, although the tone is not so bad, he indicates.
After Memphis Depay (to Barcelona) and Georginio Wijnaldum (to Paris-Saint Germain), Berghuis is the third the Dutch international to deal with transfer problems during the European Championship. “This is a completely different story,” Driessen compares the situations. “There is a lot of commotion in the Netherlands. Ajax and Feyenoord, that is sensitive to the outside world, especially among the Feyenoord supporters. They have already made themselves heard, not the most positive. Although, I still think it is somewhat And I can well imagine that, because Steven Berghuis has been the best football player in Feyenoord over the past two years. Without a doubt, but he has never become the big public favorite in De Kuip.”
According to Driessen, nothing stands in the way of a transition from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. “At Feyenoord, under the leadership of Arne Slot, they will rebuild with many youth players and he would like to harvest once,” says the reporter. “That transfer fee of four million euros is simply in the contract. And his current agent says that he can go to Ajax for four million. He probably does not have to earn from it. For the development of Berghuis it is better to go to Ajax, says his agent. From the Feyenoord offices you only hear a little that they don’t just accept that.”
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It remains to be seen whether Steven Berghuis will actually go ‘simple’ from Feyenoord to Ajax if the attacker also wants to make the switch to Amsterdam.
Driessen does not consider the competition from Germany very serious for Ajax. “Wolfsburg is much more of a one-hit wonder than Ajax,” he says. “He can continue to live in the Netherlands with his family. He has a challenge in the Champions League. He earns a great salary, perhaps as much as in Germany. So basically all signals are green to complete this deal. “Ajax as Berghuis. The fact that Ajax has officially reported in Rotterdam does mean that Berghuis is interested in a transfer to Amsterdam. Otherwise, not everyone will incur the misery that this entails.”
If it is up to Willem van Hanegem, Berghuis can be admired in De Kuip after the summer. “I wouldn’t do it,” he tells ESPN. “At Feyenoord he is the big man, at Ajax he is not. Then you always have to wait, there are a number of nice wingers there. With a view to the World Cup you have to ensure that you stay with the Dutch national team. He knows for sure that he plays at Feyenoord and that he can play well, because he gets almost everything thrown.