Feyenoord manager Robin van Persie is deliberately choosing Wolverhampton Wanderers loanee Hugo Bueno ahead of other options in an effort to convince him to stay at he club next season.
That’s according to journalist Valentijn Driessen, via Voetbal Zone, who believes Van Persie is working to convince Bueno to remain at the club.
Bueno joined Feyenoord on loan from Wolves in the summer transfer window and has been a regular this season, with 28 appearances and four assists in all competitions to date.
He’s been a big hit at the Dutch club and is currently keeping the likes of Quilindschy Hartman out of the side, something that has raised eyebrows.
Hartman was highly rated a year ago and on the verge of joining Chelsea, before needing to undergo knee surgery in March last year that saw him miss 39 games and return at the end of January.
He has struggled to remove Bueno from the starting 11 since then and Driessen believes that may actually be part of a plan from Van Persie to convince the Wolves loanee to return to Feyenoord next season.
“Perhaps it is to persuade Bueno to stay. They can rent him for another year. If he’s just sitting on the couch, it won’t happen,” Voetbal Zone report him saying on the De Telegraaf podcast.
“Hartman wants to play football so he can make a transfer. He would have gone to Chelsea last summer, if he had stayed fit.
“Hartman wants to play to make that transfer, but Van Persie has only one interest and that is the interest of Feyenoord. That is not the individual interest of Hartman.”
