The striker position remains a point of discussion at Feyenoord. Although the team from Rotterdam has been performing well so far this season, they do not have a real finisher yet. Trainer Arne Slot prefers Bryan Linssen to date, but if it is up to Valentijn Driessen, that will soon change, he indicated on Monday evening. football talk. Feyenoord watcher Mikos Gouka of Algemeen Dagblad cannot say with one hundred percent certainty that there will be a new striker.
Leading player in the entire Feyenoord striker discussion seems to be gradually becoming Róbert Bozeník. The attacker was bought for a lot of money, but has not yet proven it at Feyenoord. “Everyone said it would happen under Slot, but he is in the same boat,” Gouka also sees. “There’s not much difference. The lawyer was the only one who didn’t want him. There were twelve people who passed judgment and there was one who said: ‘He is not good enough’. That was a lawyer.” Advocaat spoke negatively about Bozeník several times last season, which led to incomprehension among many analysts.
“They still want something to happen,” Gouka continues. “If they beat Elfsborg (next opponent in the Conference League, ed.), some more money will come in. It’s not that it’s a lot of money, but enough to do something. And you know for sure that the money is there. It can also still be done as they have done now with those guys from Norway. That market could still be possible, because those players are a bit cheaper. Someone has to join anyway, because Alireza Jahanbakhsh was injured on Sunday and then he had not a winger. He could possibly have put Linssen there…”
Presenter Vincent Schildkamp does not think Linssen is a bad option to finish the season. “I’m thinking. If you now have one and a half to two million euros to spend and you would spend that on a rent for a striker… You know that if you leave Linssen there for 34 games, he will spend between 12 and the “You’re going to score 15 goals. Then you have a shadow striker who also scores 15. Why take the risk of investing that little bit of money you have in a striker that you don’t know the return on?” Valentijn Driessen clearly does not agree. “That is not a striker for Feyenoord dude, come on. How many goals did he score last year when there was no one in the stands?”
Kenneth Perez is considering a rental construction for Bozeník. “Isn’t the ideal scenario that you should try to rent Bozeník to hire another striker with that money? Whichever way you look at it: you paid four million euros for him. Then they had no money either, but I think four million euros a lot. Or they should start working with Naoufal Bannis. He is not the very best striker now, but then they have to hope that he will become a full-fledged Eredivisie player within six months or a year. you can then see during the winter break whether he might be able to make more minutes.”