Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 09:20• Tom Rofekamp

René van der Gijp gives the sporty ambitions of Mario Götze little chance. Monday came the German magazine Sports Illustrated It has emerged that the PSV midfielder still wants to win the Champions League, and therefore strives for a switch to the very highest level. Van der Gijp thinks that Götze can barely handle the level of the Eredivisie; an opinion that can count on the support of his table companions at Today Inside

“I’ve read nonsensical things all weekend, but that just continues”, Van der Gijp starts. “Die Götze. I think: he chooses PSV, because he himself knows that he is only seventy percent. And then you can still stand in the Dutch competition every now and then. RKC-home, Willem II-home, NEC- at home. But now I read that he wants to win the Champions League? The chance is even greater that I win the Staatsloterij!”

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Johan Derksen joins his table companion. “Yes, that is incomprehensible. He has a lot of credit with his German trainer (Roger Schmidt, ed.), but he regularly scores an insufficient.” Van der Gijp goes the extra mile: “But Johan, he doesn’t really add anything. You can see from everything that he is a global player. has been, or that he at least had that class. But yes, he is not fit, not fast anymore. If it were not Götze, you would say, he goes to FC Dordrecht.”

Presenter Genee adds with the concrete plans of the German world champion of 2014, who would like to go to the Serie A, the Bundesliga or the Premier League. “Now cheer up!”, laughs Van der Gijp. “Someone with common sense is going to play in the Dutch league and now say he wants to go to Spain?” Derksen sees in Götze’s statements a broader living phenomenon in the football world: “Have you ever seen a footballer who can assess himself objectively? They all think they are great. He must be happy that he is in it.”