Heracles Almelo of Holland striker, Cyriel Dessers has expressed concern over the growing level of uncertainty surrounding this year’s summer transfer window, considering how coronavirus has upset the balance of matches in the season’s fixtures, megasportsarena.com reports.
Having emerged joint-top scorer in the cancelled Dutch Eredivisie League, Dessers is drawing a lot of transfer interest from far and wide, such that the youngster is anxious to get it all sorted and over with, but he admits COVID-19 has rendered everything under a cloud of doubt.
The new Super Eagles’ invitee, who has a Nigerian mother and Belgian father, admitted he would love Almelo to sort out his transfer issue as soon as possible, but acknowledged being aware of hints that the summer window could remain open until the first week of October.
Racing Genk of Belgium are one of many clubs that have shown interest to sign Dessers in recent days, but Almelo are playing hard to convince in a deal for the in-form striker, who earlier played for the Belgian lot of FC De Zwaluw Vechmaal, Union FC Rutten, SK Tongeren, St-Truiden, Oud-Heverlee Leuven and KSC Lokeren before moving to the Netherlands in 2016.
Now that he has shot into the limelight as a leading goals scorer in one of Europe’s major football leagues, and earlier got an invitation to the Nigerian national team to boot, Dessers knows he is currently in hot demand and admitted he wants to move to join a club that can catapult him higher, even as he equally wants to be a key player, not a benchwarmer.
Dessers told Tubantia: “I hope there will be news soon. I don’t want to drag and wait all summer. Without corona it would have been very different, I think. Now the market is so uncertain, everything is uncertain.
“With the transfers I made before, I really relied on my gut feeling. The feeling must be top. I read somewhere that they want to extend the transfer period to October, they can do that, but really, I don’t want to wait that long and be in uncertainty.”
This comes at a point latest reports revealed that Heracles look set to lower their asking price of six million Euros for Dessers because they need the cash, but they will try to ensure they do not run a deficit budget.
Heracles’ director, Rob Toussaint admitted that the club need all the cash they can lay their hands on, in order to overcome financial setbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and he added: “We are short by 30% in our budget. Income could be around 8.6 million Euros and our expenses could come to 12 million Euros.”
