Stoke City star admits big move came too early for him in career – Lessons learned from failure - football

Stoke City star admits big move came too early for him in career – Lessons learned from failure



Stoke City midfielder Wouter Burger has admitted he was not ready to play for Feyenoord earlier in his career, after breaking through from the youth ranks.
Burger has been speaking on the transfer deadline day show on FC Afkicken, relayed by 1908.nl, when the discussion on his time at Feyenoord came up.
Burger joined the Dutch side as a youngster from Excelsior in 2013 and spent the next five years working his way up the various youth ranks before making it into the first team.
He would only make 16 first team appearances for Feyenoord, though, struggling to establish himself for them and eventually finding himself sent out on loan and back to his former club.
He eventually gave up on his time at the club and was sold to FC Basel after another loan spell away at Sparta Rotterdam, with all involving admitting things had simply not worked out as hoped. He spent two fruitful years in Switzerland before joining Stoke in a ?5m deal in August last year, where he?s been impressing ever since, managing three assists and one goal in 24 games in the league to date.
He?s happy with life in at Stoke and, looking back, admits he was simply too young to make a success of his time at Feyenoord.
“I think that in my time, when I broke through at Feyenoord and I was around 18 years old, I was just not ready for it yet. I still had to make real flying hours,” he said.
“I also think that if you join a first team as a boy, you need boys around you who make the difference, so t...
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