Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 4:27 PM• Rian Rosendaal • Last update: 16:29

Arne Slot will be open about the difficult situation of Mark Diemers at Feyenoord on Wednesday afternoon at the press conference prior to the second meeting with FC Drita in the second preliminary round of the Conference League. The midfielder is not in the coach’s plans for next season. Football International already announced on Wednesday morning that Diemers may leave if an interested club puts a market-based transfer fee on the table.

“I have been fairly honest with him from the start,” Slot explains at the press moment in De Kuip on Wednesday. “That he is not initially in the plans for the first eleven. In his place we have three players with Guus Til, Jens Toornstra and Francesco Antonucci who are immediately there, plus two young boys with Lennard Hartjes and Antoni Milambo. I had a conversation with Mark yesterday (Tuesday, ed.) and in the evening there was already something about it in the media. Whether that story was nonsense? That was indeed not nonsense. The same applies to João Carlos Teixeira, although he was Also injured and he can’t show himself yet. He also has a lot of competition,” the Feyenoord coach is clear about the status of the Portuguese midfielder.

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Slot then shifts attention to the second meeting with FC Drita, Thursday evening in De Kuip. There is a chance that Alireza Jahanbakhsh will appear at the kick-off, although that is not yet a hundred percent certain. “I have not made a decision about that yet. Alireza has in any case completed yesterday’s training (Tuesday, ed.). Bryan Linssen did not do that, but the expectation is that he can train again today. We will look after that training. I have something in mind, but we will have to see what is physically possible for him.”

Feyenoord made a poor impression last Thursday in the away match against FC Drita, which the Rotterdam team managed to keep at 0-0. Nevertheless, Slot is not afraid that the European adventure has already come to an end for his players on Thursday evening. “We do not take into account that it will be over after tomorrow. Of course it was not a good game in Kosovo, but we also showed good things in preparation. That gives us the confidence that we will continue”, concludes the coach of Feyenoord.