Feyenoord manager Arne Slot should have tried to force a move to Leeds United when it was officially offered to him.
That’s according to ADO Den Haag manager Dick Advocaat, who believes Slot was foolish to turn down the opportunity presented to him.
Slot confirmed he would not be joining Leeds yesterday, admitting that they had been in talks with Feyenoord about him but that he wanted to finish what he had started with the Eredivisie side.
He had been named among the candidates that Leeds were looking at to replace Jesse Marsch and appeared to be at the top of the list of candidates after the Whites failed to convince Rayo Vallecano managed Andoni Iraola.
Slot has seemingly turned down the opportunity, though, preferring to stay with the current Eredivisie leaders and potentially win the title there than move to England for a relegation battle with Leeds.
That’s a major boost for Feyenoord and a blow for those in charge at Elland Road, but Advocaat thinks it may have been the wrong decision.
“I would have tried to get away,” he told Veronica Offside, relayed by Soccer News.
“If you can work in the Premier League, that’s a totally different world. There, everything really revolves around football. Everything possible is possible there.
“It’s just not like that in the Netherlands. Feyenoord does not have a narrow selection, but if you look at the squads in the Premier League, it is not possible here.
“I think Slot is a good trainer, excellent even. What happens when they start paying amounts like they did with Julian Nagelsmann? He went to Bayern Munich for millions. Will they let him go then?”
