Schalke’s loan professional from Alkmaar
Thomas Ouwejan plans to stay at FC Schalke 04 – if the conditions are right. The 25-year-old left midfielder does not want to return to his hometown club AZ Alkmaar after his loan expires. According to the “WAZ”, the royal blues already have a mandatory purchase option of 2 million euros in the event of promotion. If you miss the Bundesliga, that obligation does not apply, it is said.
“If we get promoted I stay, if we don’t get promoted I have a lot to discuss with the club and see what’s best for me. In my ideal vision, I will go to the Bundesliga with this club, that’s what I pictured. I think it’s fantastic to go to the Bundesliga with a club like Schalke,” Ouwejan said in an interview “Voetbal Zone”.
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In winter 2020, the Dutch professional would have liked to switch to PSV Einhoven. However, Alkmaar refused him the release for a transfer to the direct competition. “The interest was there, I would have liked that. Those are nice steps, that would have been the perfect step for me. PSV remains a beautiful club. It’s a shame it didn’t work out then. The fact is that AZ didn’t really help,” said Ouwejan, who has made 27 appearances for Schalke and scored eleven points.
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In order to be in the focus of the Dutch national team, he has to play first class in the future. In any case, there has been no call from Bond coach Louis van Gaal so far. “I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon. Then we would first have to be promoted to the Bundesliga, I think. The system suits me well, for sure.” Basically, Ouwejan likes the quality in the German lower house. “If you compare the clubs in the 2nd Bundesliga with the clubs in the Eredivisie, the level here is much higher.” Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund are also said to be following Ouwejan’s development.
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