In 2016, we signed Gini Wijnaldum from Newcastle United, just as they were relegated from the Premier League.
Five years later, it looks like the Dutchman is departing, and interestingly, we’ve been linked to a potential replacement in Eurosport who could make the same step up from relegation to Jurgen Klopp’s Reds.
Sheffield United’s Sander Berge has struggled, in the main, since moving to England from Genk.
He’s had injuries, but his main issue has being part of a team who are utterly shot of confidence and guaranteed to go down.
Physically, he’s huge – with lovely technical skills that belie his height. Berge is slow, but the centre of our midfield is probably the one place in the team where we don’t necessarily need pace.
It’s not one that really excites us, but often, those deals turn out to be the best!
Sander Berge is actually not slow. When he was playing for Genk he won the 40 meter sprint test (4,7 sec) in 2018. Of course you normally don’t run at maximum speed for 40 meters in football, but it tells us he doesn’t lack pace. If he eventually could be able to replace Gini is a completely different story…