Eleven months after choosing to represent the USA over the Netherlands, teenage fullback Sergiño Dest seems to be in the midst of one other important tug of struggle: Bayern Munich or Barcelona.
The 2 European powerhouses are reportedly battling to signal the 19-year-old U.S. males’s nationwide workforce defender from Ajax, with Champions League- and treble-winning Bayern mentioned to be within the driver’s seat. In keeping with Dutch outlet De Telegraaf, Bayern administrators traveled to Amsterdam to satisfy with Ajax officers, with the membership renewing curiosity it confirmed in January. The Guardian and Sky Sports activities switch guru Fabrizio Romano experiences that timing is of the essence for Bayern, with Barcelona at the moment hamstrung by needing to unload different gamers earlier than it could possibly make an official provide. It is the identical scenario the membership is going through relating to its curiosity in Memphis Depay, with Luis Suarez’s potential move to Juventus reported to be holding issues up.
Both membership presents a novel alternative for the Netherlands-born Dest, who got here up by means of Ajax’s famed youth system. There is a degree of familiarity with Barcelona for Dest, on condition that Barça coach Ronald Koeman tried to persuade him to symbolize the Netherlands internationally as an alternative of the U.S. when he was overseeing the Oranje. Barcelona and Ajax’s ties have traditionally run deep. Ought to Barcelona promote Nelson Semedo, the beginning proper again place might be Dest’s for the taking.
Bayern, in the meantime, has proven it has no drawback turning the keys over to a Concacaf-based teenager after Canadian Alphonso Davies’s meteoric rise to turn into Bayern’s common left again and a fixture in its plans for the longer term. It is true Bayern has French World Cup winner Benjamin Pavard and Joshua Kimmich, who may each deputize at proper again, however the membership reportedly has a desire to have Kimmich’s chief function be as a central midfielder and Pavard’s to be as a middle again, which might conceivably open up the fullback spot reverse Davies.
A 3rd energy, PSG, had beforehand been linked to Dest, however it might seem that any curiosity the membership had cooled after its signing of veteran Italian proper again Alessandro Florenzi. Juan Bernat’s torn ACL and Layvin Kurzawa’s six-game suspension after the PSG-Marseille altercation over the weekend makes for a sudden fast want at left again, and whereas Dest is able to taking part in on the left–and has for the U.S.–the conditions at Barcelona and Bayern would determine to be extra alluring in each the short- and long-term.
Dest is under contract with Ajax through 2022, so the Eredivisie energy just isn’t essentially compelled to promote, although if the participant prefers to go, there might not be a greater to money in on his worth. The switch window stays open till Oct. 5.
