😳 Huijsen’s agent confirms it: seven top clubs wanted him | OneFootball

The representative of Dean Huijsen, Ali Barat, has given an interview to 'AS' and has left a few important headlines.

They asked the representative how he discovered Huijsen. He responded: "It was when he arrived in Rome, I was living in Rome at that time, and then Dybala told me about him, he said he was a fantastic player. And [Sardar] Azmoun also mentioned his name, but he also told me that Kim Min Jae was not good, and I usually don't trust him about players, so, to be honest, I didn't take it seriously. Then Bayer Leverkusen contacted me and told me that Huijsen was a fantastic player and that he didn't have an agent, that his father was playing that role, and then I thought: 'It's the boy that Azmoun and Dybala told me about!'. That's how it all started".

Then, he talked about the clubs that wanted the central defender: "The Chelsea wanted him, even since January. It was the first big club really interested, but Bournemouth didn't want to sell in January and his clause was not active then, only in summer. And of course, after playing with the national team, we had around seven big clubs: Bayern, Liverpool, Tottenham, Newcastle… Everyone wanted Dean, to be honest".

But then Real Madrid came into the picture... "We always thought that Real Madrid would come: Dean is a fantastic player, and after the two matches with the national team, Juni [Calafat] contacted us and then everything moved very quickly, to be honest. (...) When Real Madrid appeared, it was an easy decision: there were many clubs, but with Madrid there were no doubts".

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