Steven Bergwijn was so desperate to join Tottenham he turned down massive £6m PSV bonus to complete transfer
STEVEN BERGWIJN was so dedicated to joining Tottenham that he turned down a whopping £6million from PSV Eindhoven. The winger moved from the Dutch outfit on Wednesday, completing a £27m deal with Spurs. The Dutch 22-year-old ended his nine year stay with the club that he came through the ranks with. According to The Mirror, […]
STEVEN BERGWIJN was so dedicated to joining Tottenham that he turned down a whopping £6million from PSV Eindhoven.
The winger moved from the Dutch outfit on Wednesday, completing a £27m deal with Spurs.
The Dutch 22-year-old ended his nine year stay with the club that he came through the ranks with.
But his dream of playing in the Premier League outweighed any option for him to stay on.
Nothing was going to get in the youngster’s way of joining Jose Mourinho’s squad.
PSV’s sporting director, John de Jong, spoke on the matter, saying: ”Steven has given up a percentage of the fee in order to let the transfer take place.”
Bergwijn made 149 appearances fort he PSV senior team during his time at the club and scored 31 goals.
This season alone he made 29 appearances in all competitions from PSV, netting six times.
He also helped the PSV to three Eredivisie titles.
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The way that the move has gone about has not gone down well with fans, though.
The young star was verbally abused by supporters after he asked to be left out of the PSV squad for their game against FC Twente last Sunday, in order to fly to London to meet with Spurs officials.
Fans also angrily targeted De Jong for allowing the deal to go through and as a result de Jong is considering his own future at the club.
The sporting director said any claims that Bergwijn went on strike were not true.
But he did confirm that he had not been given official permission to negotiate with Tottenham.
De Jong said: ”I have to state that Steven did not refuse to play.
”He rang the manager on the morning of the game and asked if he could be left out of the squad as he was talking to Tottenham.
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”The manager said ‘okay’, but we did not give him permission to travel to England- for the simple reason that we had no deal with Tottenham.”
Spurs beat Manchester United to signing the PSV attacker.
Mourinho has been desperate to sign a frontman this month, following Harry Kane’s hamstring injury.