Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 5:12 PM• Dominic Mostert • Last update: 17:19

Micky van de Ven exchanges FC Volendam for VfL Wolfsburg, reports The Telegraph Tuesday afternoon. According to the newspaper, the defender is moving for 3.5 million euros. The contract also includes bonuses and a percentage of resale. Feyenoord would also have reached an agreement with Volendam, but Van de Ven’s choice fell on Mark van Bommel’s club.

Van de Ven has a four-year contract ready in Wolfsburg. The left-footed defender, twenty years old, wanted to force a transfer to Wolfsburg in recent days through the arbitration case. He invoked the chance of significant financial and sporting improvement in the Bundesliga leader and a disrupted employment relationship with Volendam. Van de Ven wanted to have his contract terminated on that basis, but the arbitration committee saw no reason to do so.

Now there is still a ‘chic solution’, writes The Telegraph, partly because Wolfsburg pays considerably more than the amount of two million euros for which the club initially wanted to do business. Van de Ven was stuck in North Holland for two more seasons. The center defender annex left back went through the youth academy of FC Volendam and broke through in the first team in 2019. In total, he has made 48 official appearances for the club, producing 2 goals and 2 assists. After last season, he was voted best talent of the Kitchen Champion Division.

Feyenoord Transfermarkt reported Tuesday morning that an ‘all-or-nothing attempt’ was made from De Kuip to bring in Van de Ven. Feyenoord has been looking for a new center defender for some time. PSV’s Nick Viergever was named as a candidate, but not everyone in De Kuip is equally enthusiastic about the veteran who should cost the club a few hundred thousand. According to Football International are the ‘latest reports’ that Viergever is about to move to Greuther Fürth, the current number sixteen of the Bundesliga.