Valentijn Driessen states that Steven Berghuis prefers a transfer to Ajax. Various Dutch media reported on Tuesday that the team from Amsterdam reported to Feyenoord for the 29-year-old wing attacker, who has a limited transfer fee of four million euros in his contract that runs until mid-2022. PSV and VfL Wolfsburg are also on the market, although the Germans are waiting for another player, according to Driessen.
“It’s been going on for a while and I’m not surprised. I understand why it is coming out now and not before, because Ajax has reported itself and then it leaks out at some point. Then you have to bring it. We would have liked to have kept it for the newspaper, but that was not possible,” says Driessen in the radio program Veronica Inside. “Feyenoord probably forgot to include that clause only for foreign clubs. Sjaak Troost, at the time. He’s a bargain, so I can imagine.”
“I can well imagine Berghuis’s situation. Look, abroad is an uncertain adventure after all. Watford has not been a success. He will play the Champions League, will earn as much as abroad, can continue to live in the Netherlands with his family and the Netherlands will play a World Cup next year,” the football chief of The Telegraph further. “I think he can play. Antony is a bit of his competitor. He will have to fight with that. Neres is leaving, that is the intention.”
“PSV is interested, but Ajax apparently has his preference. It has long been discussed whether he is interested. Wolfsburg wants to wait, because they first want to pick up another player before they possibly aim their arrows at Berghuis. What should you do in Wolfsburg? Then it’s better to be in Amsterdam,” Driessen concludes. Rik Elfrink, PSV watcher for the Eindhovens Dagblad, writes on Twitter that the chance that Berghuis will soon go to Ajax ‘is not inconsiderable’, but that the Eindhoven residents are not completely without a chance.
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“I think PSV is now also able to make an offer. It makes sense if you are Ajax, right? For four million you have such a good player,” says Johan Derksen in the program The the Dutch Summer from SBS6. “Yes, it’s nothing”, agrees Dick Advocaat, who has been Feyenoord’s trainer for the past year and a half. “It is spicy, but it has happened before that players from Ajax to Feyenoord.”
“The Ajax system suits him better than the PSV system,” continues Advocaat. “What is Berghuis for a player when he is substitution? Well he could have a hard time if other players did not reach his level. And I have always said: players with those qualities sometimes bring problems with them. In terms of person it is him one moment different from the next, but his football qualities are really great.”
Mike Verweij: Berghuis canceled Norwich City himself
Mike Verweij joins ESPN responds to Ajax’s interest in Berghuis. “How long has Ajax been interested in Berghuis? That’s been quite some time. Only Ajax has waited a long time to make its interest known, because it was not known how Berghuis would feel about a transfer. And I think it is a sign that Berghuis is not unwilling to do so now that Ajax has come forward. Otherwise you don’t take such a spicy step. Unfortunately, I already see the threats on social media, and that is of course a scandalous development. It will have been thought about and if Ajax reports, then I think it is a sign that Berghuis wants to take that step.”
“It is a special development, because Feyenoord will be weakened and Ajax will acquire a great player for very little money if this continues,” Verweij continues. “There were more hijackers on the coast. PSV and VfL Wolfsburg were also interested, while Norwich City has been canceled by Berghuis himself. So there was definitely interest, but I think football in the Champions League and a much better salary than at Feyenoord could be the deciding factor.”