Will PSV exceed a German bid of fifteen million euros? Sharp jab at Ajax and Beuker

The new club of Mats Rots, previously a PSV target who last week moved from FC Twente to Hoffenheim for 13 million excluding bonuses, is active in the Eredivisie. The Bundesliga club would also like to shop in Nijmegen.

In recent weeks, central midfielder and stronghold Kodai Sano of NEC has frequently been mentioned as a reinforcement for PSV. Besides PSV, the Japanese player would also be of interest to several clubs from the Bundesliga, which means that PSV will face major competition for Sano.

Earlier Omroep Gelderland and transfer journalist Mounir Boualin from Soccernews.nl reported that TSG Hoffenheim had made an offer of fifteen million euros for the Japanese player, who is not part of the World Cup squad. This news has also reached the German media.

The outlet Kicker says, however, that no bid has yet been made by TSG Hoffenheim. ''Although TSG Hoffenheim is interested in a possible transfer of Sano, there is (yet) no concrete offer of fifteen million euros made, as is circulating in the Netherlands'', Kicker writes about it.

Despite the fact that, according to that outlet, no bid was made for the Japanese player, Kicker does know that the transfer fee of fifteen million euros is correct. That Kraichgauer would have interest in Sano. So it looks very much like both PSV and Hoffenheim are interested in Sano. At FC Afkicken too, Sano’s future is a topic of conversation. The gentlemen analysts of the podcast sneerder also take the opportunity to go after Ajax a bit, which last winter, speaking through the annoying and smug Marijn Beuker, offered a million less than half of what was offered for the Japanese player.

To the great displeasure of NEC's management. "Will someone else be sitting somewhere in the Izakaya in Amsterdam for Sano soon?", sneers FC Afkicken, referring to the almost begging action by the Amsterdamers in the restaurant where the Japanese man and his agent were lured to.

Despite the sum of fifteen million euros, there is a possibility that the Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie will ask for more from the Japanner. However, it is also not clear what amount NEC would like to receive for the midfielder.