Dutch outlet 1908.nl have revealed that Arne Slot was convinced by the Feyenoord hierarchy that it would be a mistake to leave the club through the back door, given what he has built.
Following, the collapse of Arne Slot‘s move to Tottenham have Monday, some publications have suggested the move fell through as a result of the North London club refusing to pay the £20m compensation that Feyenoord wanted (talkSPORT).
Meanwhile, others have suggested that the Dutchman may have never wanted the job in the first place and could have simply been using Spurs’ interest to secure a more lucrative contract at the Eredivisie side (The Athletic).
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1908.nl have now explained that Spurs ‘dropped out at an early stage’ on Wednesday as they found the compensation Feyenoord were demanding to be too high, with the Lilywhites thus leaving Slot to do the heavy lifting if he wanted to leave De Kuip.
Feyenoord manager Dennis te Kloese and in-house lawyer Joris van Benthem allegedly then had an hour-long conversation with the 44-year-old on Wednesday where they questioned whether he really wanted to leave ‘in this way’ instead of leading the club into the Champions League next season.
The report states that Slot then spoke to his family about it before sleeping on Feyenoord’s contract offer on Wednesday night.
The former AZ Alkmaar boss was reportedly clear on Thursday morning that he wanted to remain in Rotterdam and informed his agent, Rafaela Pimenta, of the same.
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So, it does appear as if Tottenham would have got their hands on Slot if they had paid the compensation demanded by Feyenoord.
However, at the same time, it seems like the Dutchman was not so keen on jumping ship to the Premier League club that he wanted to burn his bridges at Feyenoord in order to do so.
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