Berghuis: ‘I’m really looking forward to joining Watford FC’

Steven Berghuis says is in the dark over what is holding up his club-record move to Vicarage Road and is keen for it to be resolved as he desperate to join the club.

The Hornets have agreed a deal apparently worth more than £6million with AZ Alkmaar, which would top the fee they paid Tottenham Hotspur for Etienne Capoue. The player and his family have already visited the club’s facilities.

“Watford and AZ have a couple of small points after an agreement,” Berghuis told the De Telegraaf. “What it is all about, I do not know. But John van den Brom [the coach at AZ Alkmaar] and Earnie Stewart [the technical director] assured me that it will be fine.

“My father, brother and I have been in London last week. I’m an emotional person and just want to go to a club and I feel comfortable there. It was a visit without any expectations, but I’m certainly open to Watford.”

Berghuis is represented by Mino Raiola, who also represents Capoue, and he has been thrashing out the deal with Gino Pozzo. The De Telegraaf reports than “an initial bid of nearly six million was repulsed by the Alkmaar”. A sticking point could be a clause Watford want inserted where part of the transfer fee is paid if Berghuis helps keeps Watford in the Premier League. Pozzo is also understood to favour the contracts of players being heavily incentivised.

The forward, 23, is capable of playing anywhere across the frontline and is tailor-made for one of the three slots up for grabs behind Troy Deeney. However, he is already nearly a month behind his new teammates in terms of specific pre-season training and is unsurprisingly keen for the move to be finalised so he can start acclimatising to life in England and under Quique Sanchez Flores.

“Especially in terms of physical I will have to hurry up,” he said. “But I just really look forward to it.”

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