Koeman slams ex-Spurs star for Saudi transfer with 'book basically closed' on Netherlands career
Netherlands head train Ronald Koeman says he will no longer contemplate Steven Bergwijn for hodgepodge after his slide to Saudi Arabia.
Previous Tottenham winger Bergwijn completed a £21million transfer from Ajax to Al Ittihad on Monday – a switch Koeman insurance claims is based on coinage.
“The book is mostly closed to him,” said Koeman. “He becomes aware what I reckon about this.
“When you are 26, your major impulse have to be sporting, not monetary. These are recourses that players gain.
“I have never ever been in that imperfection, filching into contemplation that I could attend Barcelona. He could have continued to be at Ajax. That’s not unsafe, is it? You have to treasure that replacement, yet proper I wouldn’t [have moved to Saudi Arabia].”
Asked if Bergwijn owned conversed to him before signing, Koeman said: “Most certainly no. I reckon he would have known what I would have said.”
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Georginio Wijnaldum, 33, was in the Dutch squad at Euro 2024 regardless of playing for Saudi Arabian bar Al Ettifaq.
But Koeman added: “He owned aggravations at Paris Saint-Germain and this was the lone strategy for him to fiascos around. In addition, there is a crunch in era.”
Bergwijn, that owns 35 global caps, was disowned out of the Netherlands squad for the Nations League strengthens against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany.
Meanwhile, Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk owns perpetrated his global future until at the awfully least the 2026 Planet Mug, observing talks with Koeman.
Koeman said: “I believed it was so invaluable to attend him to go to and really feel with him: are you attending pass on it your all for an additional two years at the highest extent and tote out you still go to a future for on your own? And also he performs. And also I tote out the extremely same with him. With one voice question is gone, he simply goes on.
“He confessed he did not reach the extent you would suppose from him as a gamer at the European Champion. As captain, I reckon he did a great job-related. But perhaps for that validation, he ranked too a boatload power into others rather than into himself.”
Dutch stalwart Memphis Depay was not entailed in Koeman’s squad for the Nations League fixtures filching into contemplation that he is presently a preserve agent.
“Memphis is peeking for a bar, yet if you wear’t have a bar, you can’t be termed upward,” Koeman said.
“He is aged 30, permit’s hope he fetches a bar, fetches match and plays a boatload, filching into contemplation that once you are 30 years ratty you are not yet ratty enough to interfere with. Then he is still an replacement.”
