St. Juste makes U-turn: defender rethinks Sporting future | OneFootball

St. Juste is going through a complicated time at Sporting, after being demoted to the green and white B team by the club’s management.

St. Juste may be willing to wait for the summer transfer window to leave Sporting. The Dutch central defender is experiencing an uncomfortable moment at the Alvalade club, after his departure failed to materialize in the last window and after being demoted to the green and white B team.

Initial reports indicated that the central defender might be willing to accept an offer in the winter market, in order to secure a quicker return to top-level competition. However, the situation may end up having a very different outcome.

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The newspaper A Bola reports that St. Juste will analyze the offers that arrive in the winter market, but the expectation is that they will be worse than those that came in the summer, as a result of his demotion to Sporting’s B team. Therefore, if none of the offers are satisfactory to the player and his agents, the Dutchman is willing to wait until next summer to leave the club as a free agent.

It’s worth remembering that Jeremiah St. Juste arrived at Sporting in 2022 from Mainz, for around 10 million euros. Although he managed to show why Sporting spent that amount, the central defender was never able to establish himself as a starter, largely due to injuries that have always troubled him. The arrival of Rui Borges, and the switch to a system with two central defenders instead of three, ended up reducing his playing time even further.

And the truth is, in the summer, the situation was very close to being resolved. Although St. Juste’s intention was to stay at Sporting, he was informed that he should find a new club, and he even attracted interest from Besiktas, PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, AZ Alkmaar, Wolfsburg, with Sporting even reaching agreements with Osasuna and Union Berlin, two options that were ultimately rejected by the central defender.

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