Latest news
News FREE to Sign Up!! Do it now and play Victor Predictor for FREE this Season!!
Victor’s Blog
Liverpool, Newcastle and Spurs target miscalculated
Written by JR Walker | 21st July 2006 | 7 Comment(s)
Clubs interested in prying Holland international away from Feyenoord must improve their bids, the striker's agent warned.
Liverpool is said to be leading the race to sign the 25-year-old Kuyt, but Newcastle United, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have also been linked with him.
Nevertheless, no club has matched Feyenoord's £13.7 million valuation, Kuyt's agent Rob Jansen said.
''Dirk will not be signing for Liverpool any time soon,'' Jansen told AD Sportwereld.
"He is also not negotiating with any other English club for that matter.''
He continued, ''Clubs do not want to pay what Feyenoord wants.''
''If foreign clubs don't have the money to buy Kuyt then he will stay with Feyenoord, it's that simple.''
Jansen admittedly doesn't fix the price, but if that is what Feyenoord really do want then it will not be surprising if Kuyt does remain in Holland.
The striker chose to stay in his native land last season in order to secure a place in Marco van Basten's World Cup squad when he could have moved in the ‘January Window', but when he arrived at the tournament his talents were probably not shown in the best light.
Initially he was a late substitute in games that Holland were winning, before starting in the final match against Argentina when qualification was already assured and neither team went at exactly full tilt.
Ruud van Nistelrooy's poor form, and run-in with van Basten, saw Kuyt selected for the ill-fated encounter with Portugal where the ball seemed superfluous to requirements on many occasions to put it politely.
Kuyt managed 25 goals in 37 appearances for Feyenoord last season, but was overshadowed by Klaas Jan Huntelaar who struck 39 goals in 44 League and European appearances for Heerenveen and then Ajax following his transfer to Amsterdam in January.
Newcastle would seem to be the neediest club at present, but it could be that some of the other clubs may wait to see if Huntelaar can repeat his heroics this season.
Should he do so, and of course Ajax will listen to offers, then Kuyt may find he has missed the Premiership boat unless Feyenoord can be swayed on their valuation.
Feyenoord of course will be reluctant to sell after allowing another free-scoring player, Salomon Kalou, to join Chelsea for £3.5 million, but quite how they calculate Kuyt's asking price will be beyond most.Sign up to play Victor Predictor now!
Comments
Comment by Your name here on Saturday 22 July 2006 @ 1:28pm
Comment by robexas on Saturday 22 July 2006 @ 1:40am
Kuyt nemoka zaisti kam jis siems klubams...:D
Comment by Steve on Friday 21 July 2006 @ 8:39pm
8 million !! from what I saw in the WC he's probably worth about 4m, I reckon someone should take a punt on huntelaar - could probably get him for 3 million
Comment by de on Friday 21 July 2006 @ 5:41pm
kyut is a great player.but i think his club just wanna make as much money as possible after realising they sold one of their best player to chelsea for less than 4mil. kyut will remain there for the next season, unless they revalue him. i tink he's worth 6.5mil max !
Comment by kris on Friday 21 July 2006 @ 2:46pm
True. Kalou was important and very good for Feyenoord too, but they sold him for less than 4m. And Kuyt failed in the summer's WC. Nobody would pay 13m for him now. The problem is that too many clubs get greedy in such situations.
Comment by reef on Friday 21 July 2006 @ 9:23am
true.. he's definitely not worth 13million quid plus.. dream on feyernoord.. you can keep kuyt.. for 13M, a club could buy both crespo and saviola!
Comment by Frank on Friday 21 July 2006 @ 8:39am
Kuyt is ok, but he's overrated. He's an 8 million pound player at the most.
kuyt is bullshit.