Luis Sinisterra exchanges Feyenoord for a record amount for Leeds United, report it AD and VI Monday. According to the AD the Rotterdammers receive a fixed amount of 21 million euros, which can rise to 25 million euros through bonuses.
Sinisterra was missing from Feyenoord’s training field earlier in the day for “personal reasons”. The 23-year-old attacker was, it now appears, completing his transfer to Leeds. Reportedly, Everton was also interested in him.
With his transfer fee of 21 million euros, Sinisterra is the most expensive Feyenoord player in club history. The record is now in the hands of Dirk Kuijt, who moved to Liverpool in the summer of 2007 for eighteen million euros.
Feyenoord makes a big profit on Sinisterra, which came over four years ago for two million euros from Once Caldas from his native Colombia. In the years that followed, the five-time international gradually became more and more important in Rotterdam.
Last season, Sinisterra had a large share in reaching the Conference League final with 23 goals and fourteen assists in 43 matches. Feyenoord finished third in the Eredivisie.
Luis Sinisterra was a defining player at Feyenoord last season.
Luis Sinisterra was a defining player at Feyenoord last season. Photo: Pro Shots
Leeds is number seventeen last season
With Leeds, Sinisterra joins the club that finished seventeenth in the Premier League last season. ‘The Whites’ had only three points margin compared to the relegation places.
Sinisterra, who still had a two-year contract in Rotterdam, is the eighth player to leave Feyenoord behind. Trainer Arne Slot will no longer have access to Guus Til, Bryan Linssen, Reiss Nelson and Cyriel Dessers this season.
Opposite this is the arrival of Mats Wieffer, Mohamed Taabouni and Danilo Pereira. Feyenoord’s season officially starts on August 8 with an away match against Vitesse in the Eredivisie.