Jens Toornstra was put in the limelight at Feyenoord last Saturday, because he played his 250th match for the team from Rotterdam last week. In the home game against VVV-Venlo, won 6-0, he scored two goals. The 31-year-old midfielder has been playing in De Kuip since 2014 and has a contract until mid-2022 for the time being. It is still unclear what the future of Toornstra will look like after this season, as the new trainer Arne Slot has not yet shared his plans with him. .
If Feyenoord decide not to continue with Toornstra, he must be sold next summer to prevent him from ending up in his last contract year. “I don’t know yet whether the new trainer has it clear for himself as far as I’m concerned. I have not spoken to him yet, so I do not know what the intention is for next season ”, says Toornstra in conversation with the Algemeen Dagblad. The experienced midfielder did not yet have a conversation about his near future with Arnesen.
“I have now played more than 250 matches for this club,” said Toornstra. “Under different trainers (Rutten, Van Bronckhorst, Stam and Advocaat, ed.). That says something. I hope that I will also play a lot next season. And I also just want to keep playing for Feyenoord. Although a lot depends on the plans of the new trainer and the plans of the club. A foreign adventure? That ambition is no longer there, to be honest. But again, it also depends on Feyenoord. ”
“I don’t know what the club and the trainer are up to with me. I would like to know, but he doesn’t necessarily have to talk to me ”, adds Toornstra The Telegraph. This season he scored 7 goals and 4 assists in 31 official games for Feyenoord. “I feel very fit and I certainly believe that I can compete at this level for a few more years. Ultimately, the decision is not up to me. ”
While the current trainer is Dick Advocaat in The Telegraph sees a role for Toorntra in the ‘new Feyenoord’, Willem van Hanegem believes that the Rotterdammers should not be ‘too impulsive’. “That’s how it often worked at Feyenoord. A few good matches and a great new contract. Think of Kornejev, Van der Heijden, Biseswar and Achahbar ”, writes Van Hanegem in his column in the Algemeen Dagblad. “I also know that Toornstra has meant a lot more to Feyenoord than those four guys, I’m not crazy. But Toornstra is still stuck for another year, will be 33 years old when that contract expires and a few weeks ago I just thought he too fell through the ice, along with the rest of the team. ”