Antwerp is about to complete the second major transfer coup of the summer, because after Orange striker Vincent Janssen, Red Devil Toby Alderweireld is also coming to de Bosuil. The flirtation had been going on for months, but now all parties have found each other. Antwerp announced on Monday that it had reached an oral agreement with both Al-Duhail and Alderweireld and that a three-year contract is ready.
With that, it is bringing an (ex-)Red Devil back to Belgium for the umpteenth time, after Steven Defour, Kevin Mirallas and Radja Nainggolan Alderweireld have also preceded in recent years. But that doesn’t satisfy the Great Old’s hunger. The name of Dries Mertens has also been falling on de Bosuil for weeks due to the deadlock surrounding his contract extension at Napoli.
But chairman Paul Gheysens denies that the 35-year-old attacker is a theme at the Bosuil. “Whether Dries Mertens has already been offered here? No, there has been no contact with Dries Mertens. I am sorry that they say that”, he makes crystal clear. The newspapaer† For the time being, it does not appear that Mertens will settle in Deurne this summer.
WHERE?
Where the future of Mertens will lie, remains a big question. The attacker himself seemed to hope that he would be allowed to stay at Napoli, but they announced last weekend that he would have rejected a two-year contract at 2.5 million euros net per year. His name also fell with Lazio and Olympique Marseille, but the question is how concrete that all is.
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