Steven Bergwijn this summer completed his long awaited move to Ajax, and is now trying to kickstart his career following a difficult period with Tottenham.
After making the move, the 24-year-old said he’d been thinking about the transfer for a year and a half, indicating how quickly he knew his time at Spurs wasn’t going the way he hoped for.
Last season, the attacker only got 546 minutes in the Premier League, and he feels that when he was given opportunities at Tottenham, he often showed enough to be given more, although that isn’t the way things worked out.
Speaking again about his struggles with the London club, Bergwijn is quoted by Voetbal International as saying: “It was difficult, especially mentally, because I played little in the second half of the season at Tottenham Hotspur.
“If I came on as a substitute, I could be important, but then I had to sit on the bench again the next game. In the games and minutes I got, I think I pushed myself to get a chance. But it never came, and that made it difficult.”
Antonio Conte clearly wasn’t a big fan of the Dutchman, and the player’s exit allowed Spurs to bring in a good transfer fee, helping the Italian manager with funds for incomings this summer.
Bergwijn will now want to shine at Ajax, and then the World Cup, and perhaps prove a few people wrong about his level.
