ADO Den Haag has found a defensive reinforcement at AZ. The leader of the Kitchen Champion Division plans to rent the redundant Billy van Duijl until the end of the season, Voetbal International reports.
In addition to ADO, PEC Zwolle also inquired about the services of the Volendam defender. She even placed an offer in Alkmaar, but for Van Duijl only rental was an option. That is no problem for the club from The Hague. Remarkably, Van Duijl won with hard numbers on Friday evening when he visited ADO (1-4).
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Van Duijl recently made his first-team debut for AZ. He got playing time in the KNVB Cup against Ajax, but he is still waiting for playing time in the competition. He played 47 matches in the KKD for the U23 team in a season and a half. “AZ has indicated that, if I want, I can be rented out for six months. Sale is not an option, but I will leave that up to my agent. At the moment I am at AZ and I am focusing on that,” Van Duijl said earlier this week. ESPN. Competitor Rion Ichihara was presented earlier on Saturday at the Alkmaarders.
It is not an unnecessary luxury for ADO to get an extra boost in the KKD title battle. The Hagenezen are still at the top of the competition, but have lost in four of the last five matches. The gap with attacker SC Cambuur has shrunk to three points. They play against Jong PSV on Monday.
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