Feyenoord did not come out with Arne Slot on Wednesday, Martijn Krabbendam reports Football International. General manager Dennis te Kloese spoke at length with agent Rafaela Pimenta, but did not reach an agreement. Slot’s management has indicated that it is open to a departure for Tottenham Hotspur. Feyenoord wants a huge lump sum for this.
Te Kloese had initially invited Pimenta to make Slot a much improved contract proposal. Feyenoord wants to continue with the champion maker at all costs and is willing to make Slot the best-paid Eredivisie coach ever with a salary of more than three million euros per year. However, Slot has indicated that he wants to listen to Tottenham’s proposal, which shows concrete interest and considers him a top candidate. On Thursday, Te Kloese and Pimenta will talk further. Slot is fixed until mid-2025 and will not have a departure clause until next year.
To bring about a transition will the Spurs must first and foremost come to an agreement with Feyenoord. The team from Rotterdam previously indicated that they wanted to play hard and are sticking to that for the time being. The club considers Julian Nagelsmann, who went from RB Leipzig to Bayern Munich for a record amount of 25 million euros, as ‘precedent’, according to Feyenoord watcher Krabbendam. Chelsea paid eighteen million euros to Brighton & Hove Albion in September for Graham Potter, now the most expensive Premier League coach ever.
Feyenoord is currently forced to orient itself on the succession of Slot. The clubless Peter Bosz has a past as a player and technical director at Feyenoord and is often mentioned because of his offensive style of play, comparable to Slot. According to Rijnmond However, Bosz is not on everyone’s list of options within the organization. Pascal Jansen, who became Slot’s successor at AZ, is in good shape internally at Feyenoord, it sounds. Feyenoord is also considering the option of transferring Sipke Hulshoff, Slot’s assistant. In that case, an experienced assistant will be recruited.