Luuk de Jong will definitely leave PSV. The almost 35-year-old striker leaves transfer-free to FC Porto, the club that has been trained by Francesco Farioli since this season. The Italian was in charge of Ajax last season. Later in the evening De Jong reported that he is looking back with great pleasure and gratitude on his Eindhoven periods.
“I will stay connected to this beautiful club for the rest of my life, the most beautiful in the Netherlands. Your fans have supported me, in good and in bad times. I have given everything for you and the club. The times are now very good as PSV. Make sure that it stays that way. Houdoe.”
The contract of PSV’s former captain ended at the end of last season. Until this weekend it was unclear whether De Jong would still sign or whether he would leave the Eindhoven national champion. De Jong therefore opts for a foreign adventure again.
The former international played before Borussia Mönchengladbach, Newcastle United, Sevilla and Barcelona.
Luuk de Jong was a ‘head phenomenon’
De Jong he started De Graafschap, then left for FC Twente and, after adventures across the border in 2014, returned to the Dutch football fields at PSV. At the Eindhoven club he scored regularly and was primarily a ‘head phenomenon’. In 2019, De Jong moved to Spain and then to put on the PSV club colors again from 2022.
In the Eredivisie he was good for 155 goals. He is twelfth on the list of premier league top scorers of all time. De Jong is the most accurate player of the 21st century (in the Eredivisie). In his second period in Eindhoven he scored 57 goals in 89 games. Ajax was one of the clubs that suited him best: in almost every match against the Amsterdam rival he managed to score, like last November in the Amsterdam Arena (3-2 loss for PSV). In Eindhoven, De Jong was unable to find it against the Ajax of (then) Farioli. That duel was also lost for the later national champion.
De Jong played 39 times for Orange. A few years ago he thanked for the Dutch national team, because he wanted more time for his career as a club player.
PSV says through X that De Jong was ‘a captain with class’, ‘a real club legend’.
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