Luuk de Jong will definitely leave PSV. The 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.
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.
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). 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.