Sem Steijn is about to make the switch to FC Twente. TC Tubantia and Broadcasting West already reported the upcoming transfer of the twenty-year-old midfielder from ADO Den Haag on Tuesday. set now The Telegraph and Football International that Steijn will sign a three-year contract in Enschede, provided that the medical examination does not cause any problems.
FC Twente can bring in Steijn transfer-free, since his contract with ADO has expired. “ADO has no option. So we are going to talk about a new contract, which is still open,” said Steijn in an interview with in December Football zone† However, there were already the necessary opportunities to leave during the winter break. Steijn has chosen to finish the season at ADO in the hope of forcing promotion.
Regardless of the end of the season with ADO, Steijn will move to the Eredivisie. The midfielder only made his debut this season in the main squad of the current number four of the Kitchen Champion Division and has turned out to be a true revelation. So far, Steijn, who was trained by ADO, has scored 12 goals and 3 assists in 26 official matches in this football season.
“I think he adds something to FC Twente”, says Abdenasser El Khayati in the program football talk by ESPN† “I came back from Qatar last season in February and I think he joined in March, then I saw good things. Also a good face, he likes. He told me every now and then that it will never happen at ADO, because it was going quite well in the years before. Despite the fact that he wanted to break through at ADO, he was away for a while.”
Steijn went in the wake of father Maurice to VVV-Venlo and Al-Wahda, but returned to ADO two years ago. “A good football player, good face, would like: he can certainly handle FC Twente,” emphasizes El Khayati. Kees Kwakman is particularly pleased with Steijn’s ‘good kick’. “I wonder if it’s a year too early, maybe it would be good to have fifty or sixty games to your name. Well, for that boy I get it. If you can take such a step.”
“If you start the preparation at FC Twente and you see that it is going to be difficult, you can still go to a PhD student,” says El Khayati. “Then you also take competitions. He surprised me positively, I saw very good things. But that was on the training field. After I left, he really positively surprised me. Making goals, always in the box.”