Kees Smit of AZ Alkmaar has emerged as one of the crucial sought-after younger prospects within the switch market heading into 2026.
Simply 19 years previous, the teen is attracting curiosity from among the greatest golf equipment in Europe, together with FC Barcelona.
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Certainly, the La Liga champions are , however competitors for him continues to accentuate.
Manchester United and different PL golf equipment enter race
Certainly, with , journalist experiences that Manchester United are amongst a number of Premier League golf equipment exhibiting curiosity in Smit.
Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester Metropolis, Liverpool, Tottenham and Newcastle are all eager on the 19-year-old Dutch starlet, who gained the U19 European Championships earlier this yr.
German heavyweights Bayern Munich are additionally conserving tabs on the younger midfield prodigy.
Kees Smit is being courted by a number of golf equipment. (Picture by Richard Pelham/Getty Photographs)
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As issues stand, it seems nearly a foregone conclusion that Smit will go away AZ in the summertime and safe a giant transfer.
However the rising curiosity implies that there could possibly be a bidding struggle on the horizon, with the report suggesting that the Dutch outfit will search a sum of no less than €60 million (£52 million).
The truth that Smit has a contract with them till the summer time of 2028 strengthens their place additional.
If such a determine is reached, it could make it a document sale within the historical past of AZ, which presently stands at €20 million paid by AC Milan for Tijjani Reijnders in 2023.
As issues stand, a brand new midfielder shouldn’t be a precedence for Barcelona, with a brand new centre-back and a striker their foremost targets for the summer time.
Nevertheless, Smit is a particular participant whom the Blaugrana are monitoring, though the rising curiosity and price ticket may put them off.