TAlkmaar, Arizona’s young Keith Smit is a revelation in European football and everything points to him moving to one of the big Old Continent clubs at the end of this season. Additionally, two teams are particularly interested in his services: Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Former Dutch soccer players from both teams have been speaking out in recent days. Former Real Madrid player Rafael van der Vaart has made it clear where the player will end up. “If he continues to progress like this, he will definitely end up at Real Madrid or one of the biggest clubs in the world. For me it’s Real Madrid,” he said.
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For their part, in the Barcelona environment, the Blaugrana’s strong links with Dutch football will always be remembered since the arrival of Johan Cruyff in the 1970s.
And what does the boy say? Keith Smit is already talking about Barcelona. He says it jokingly, but the wink is there. The Dutch youngster was in the Catalan capital to celebrate the cup title won by his team AZ Alkmaar, so he wanted to joke about his future.
At 20 years old, he will become a star at European level. Big clubs in Europe are starting to pay attention to him. Barcelona could also be one of them, but it is true that the numbers being talked about are a little far from the economic size of the Catalan club (about 50 million euros). But signals are being sent from the players’ cronies.
Ronald Koeman has described himself as a “Barça player”, defining him as “a combination of De Jong and Pedri”. Meanwhile, the midfielder is celebrating the success his team achieved a few days ago. He wanted to joke about this trip because they will be celebrating the title in Barcelona.
If you are asked to negotiate, I will be happy to do so. Of course, there is time for that.
“If they ask me to negotiate, I’ll be happy to do that. Of course I have time for that,” Smit told ESPN while celebrating the Cup title. “For a while it’s the only way to celebrate with the group, but then we have two more games and we’re going to have a great time there,” he said of his trip to Barcelona.
The Dutch Cup was his first big success and he would like to celebrate it, but he remains grounded: “Ideally, I would like to party like this every week, but unfortunately that’s not possible.It’s time to go back to normal life for a while.The last few days have been really fun.There are still three games left, so let’s get back to normal life.”
