According to Voetbal International, a number of Premier League clubs are showing interest in signing PSV Eindhoven winger Steven Bergwijn.
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The 20-year-old was the subject of a rejected €10 million offer from Italian side Torino in the summer as PSV looked to keep the talent for at least another season. However, a number of English Premier League sides are now starting to circle the Netherlands U21 international.
According to VI, Tottenham Hotspur are very interested in the youngster, but face competition from Bournemouth, Southampton and West Ham United.
Bergwijn was expected to have a breakout campaign last season, but couldn’t make a big impact in Phillip Cocu’s side. However, so far this campaign he has impressed with two goals and an assist in the opening seven league games.
And this is why our national team suffers. Today is Bergwijn’s 20th birthday and Premier League rumours are already starting. He has yet to crack the mens national team and there’s already talk of him leaving the Eredivisie. He needs 3-4 more years before this should happen.
I agree….
The dutch clubs are foolish too.sign them to long contracts pay them well and keep your players,benefit by having a much stronger side and ultimately they will be selling players like this for 30-40 mill fees not 10.
If ajax kept all their decent players a minimum of 5 years imagine how much stronger the side would always be and they players they would still have? Goes for all dutch sides. They are pathetic,holland is a hugely wealthy country bot a desperate 3rd world one.
Look how poor half the countries are that buy dutch players? I dare say the gdp of holland is mutiple times that if half of them.
The clubs are creating this problem themselves by selling out.
I could name countkess dutch players sold too early to sit on benches. Even top eredivisie players just sit on benches elsewhere,karsdorp the latest waste.instead of developing in holkand ges warming a bench.
There needs to be an intervention….the big 3 clubs need to grow some balls and say no.
You’re not wrong, but the sad reality is that if our clubs grow those balls and say no, the players will be unsettled knowing they have to wait for the higher salaries abroad. Some players now do sign longer contracts, which are meant to drive their selling price up. If Dutch clubs start saying no to the bigger clubs, the players who do sign longer contracts will stop.
I don’t know what the solution is besides more spending regulations from FIFA and/or UEFA.