.Tom Hamilton, Senior Citizen WriterSep 3, 2024, 05:49 AM ETClose u2022 Signed up with ESPN in 2011 u2022 Dealt with 2 Olympics, a pair of Rugby Planet Cups and also two British & Irish Lions tours u2022 Recently rugby editor, and also came to be elderly writer in 2018Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman has claimed Steven Bergwijn prioritised economic ambition over his very own featuring goals after accomplishing a EUR25 million ($ 27.6 m) move to Saudi Pro Game side Al Ittihad, including he will not consider the ahead for global responsibility for the foreseeable future.Bergwijn's move coming from Ajax to Al Ittihad was revealed on Monday, and it has agitated Koeman who mentioned the transfer is actually various to the case of Georginio Wijnaldum when he left behind PSG for Al Ettifaq in September 2023. Publisher's Picks2 Related" Georginio Wijnaldum once went in this way considering that he possessed an issue at Paris Saint-Germain," Koeman stated. "He could simply most likely to that nation to participate in football up until January. In Bergwijn's instance is actually that he goes at the grow older of 26, sporting ambition carries out certainly not dominate. Certainly not everybody believes, luckily, the same way. I believe when you are 26 the principal ambition ought to be sporting and also not monetary, yet those are actually options gamers create." Bergwijn is going to play under Laurent Blanc in Saudi Arabia in a team that includes N'Golo Kantu00e9, Karim Benzema, Fabinho, Houssem Aouar, Predrag Rajkovic and Moussa Diaby.Koeman stated Bergwijn was not duty-bound to use up the Saudi provide." He could possess remained at Ajax, couldn't he? And also I presume they spend OK at Ajax as well. Yet indeed, it's his choice," he said.Steven Bergwijn has 35 hats for Netherlands since creating his global debut in 2018. Eric Verhoeven/Soccrates/Getty Images" I haven't remained in that circumstance myself. I could head to Barcelona. I assume if Bergwijn might have gone to Barcelona, he wouldn't have visited Saudi Arabia either." The action aims to have actually hurt Bergwijn's chances of adding to his 35 hats for the Netherlands." The book is essentially shut for him, however," Koeman claimed of Bergwijn's international opportunities. "He has certainly not called me about this. I presume he understands just how I deal with this." On the other hand, captain Virgil truck Dijk has actually devoted his future to the Netherlands up until the 2026 World Mug at the very least, Koeman confirmed on Tuesday.Koeman mentioned he flew to Liverpool to have face-to-face talks along with Vehicle Dijk." I thought it was thus necessary to visit him to view and also feel with him: are you mosting likely to offer it your all for an additional 2 years at the highest level as well as do you still observe a future on your own? As well as he carries out. And also I do the exact same with him. All uncertainty is actually gone, he merely happens," Koeman claimed." He confessed he carried out not reach out to the level you will get out of him as a player at the International Championship. As leader, I assume he carried out a wonderful job. Yet maybe because of this, he put a lot of electricity in to others rather than into himself.".