Transfer of star players devastating for Dutch outfits – Eredivisie special
Dutch Eredivisie was one of the strongest leagues in Europe back in the 90’s when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Clarence-Seedorf-c9275 and Edwin van der Saar taking European heavyweights to
school are a memory fresh for many. However, things have changes quite dramatically in a decade.
Dutch top flight clubs now seem to struggle to hold onto their star players and as a result, clubs’ performances in European competitions have taken a significant beating with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Feyenoord-c39258 Rotterdam being the last Eredivisie outfit to win a major European trophy
since Ajax’s UEFA Champions League triumph in 1995.
Furthermore, lack of success is not the only concern, but rather being a strong contestant in Europe, Dutch Eredivisie has become a feeder league to other more illustrious leagues such as English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue
1, German Bundesliga and most recently, even Russian Premier League.
Top Eredivisie clubs Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord Rotterdam, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Twente-c39233 Enschede have produced some outstanding players in the recent past. However, they have been unable to hold on to their prized assets, as elite European clubs’ lucrative
offers have remained too tempting to be turned down for both the players and the clubs.
Earlier, Dutch top tier would lose two or at most three good players to top European clubs in a season, but this year has been devastating for the Eredivisie outfits, as they have lost six exceptional players to top European clubs already, and the summer
transfer window has just opened.
It all started in the January transfer market earlier this year, when unarguably two of the best Eredivisie players moved abroad for greener pastures. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 for Barcelona FC, while Ajax’s Luis Suarez joined Liverpool FC.
The ongoing summer transfer market turned things from bad to worse, as PSV’s Balazs Dzsudzsak recently signed for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/NEC-c40018 Nijmegen for Club Brugge and to
add more to misery, promising youngsters, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan respectively.
Dutch football lovers were not concerned much when Suarez and Afellay left for pastures new, but Dzsudzsak and Wolfswinkel’s departures have certainly raised many eyebrows in Netherlands.
Furthermore, there are still a number of players who are keenly observed by elite European clubs and it seems unlikely that by the end of ongoing summer transfer market, they would be pursuing their careers in Netherlands in the upcoming season.
In modern world of football, money has played a http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vitalô-c40903 part in building a competitive squad, and most Eredivisie outfits don’t have the financial power to hold on to their prized assets. Taking Dzsudzsak as an example, PSV raised the Hungarian International’s
wages by 100 percent, but the Russian Premier League outfit lured the winger away from Philips Stadion with an offer even more lucrative. It was then up to the club management to take a decision whether they wanted to hold on to their starlet. With financial
worries hounding them, like many other Dutch clubs, PSV decided to cash-in on the winger.
It seems evident that Eredivisie is no longer a force to be reckoned with in Europe as they once were and it seems unlikely that Dutch top flight will return to compete at the highest levels in the coming years.
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