AEK did for Van Wert what no team other than the Dutchman should expect

When a team acquires the league’s top scorer, they have theoretically made a safe move from a proven football player. Even if he has a bruise that will put him out of action for the foreseeable future.

After all, in the past, even in the small and medium-sized teams that competed in Holland and Denmark, o Tom Van Wert He was a consistently skillful and productive goalkeeper. The 147 goals in 375 competitive games prove the truth.

And yet over the years there has never been a team that has bought him from another club. In 2014 he moved from Den Bosch to Excelsior as a free agent. The same happened in 2016 when he moved to Groningen. Aalborg took him on without paying anything in 2018 and he also joined Volos in 2021. AEK was the first team to buy Van Wert from another club. instead of 500,000 euros.

Araujo and the Levi Garcia case

Of course, that doesn’t mean the Dutch striker’s path to the XI will be easy. Especially after his injury. It’s clear – from what Matias Almeida has shown us so far – that Sergio Araujo is irreplaceable.

It’s also a foregone conclusion that the Argentine will bet heavily on Levi Garcia’s move to the forward ranks, competitively investing in the Trinidad and Tobago footballer’s impressive physicality and athleticism.

At this stage, the priority for Almeida is to ensure the best possible collaboration between Garcia and Araujo. In order to get the necessary chemistry, they should play together, training alone is not enough. With the image they had against Panaitolikos, the Argentine was even more confident that he was going in the right direction.

work and patience

It is also worth noting that during the open training session, the AEK coach used Amrbat at Araujo for tactical drills as Garcia was absent due to commitments with his home country’s national team. Maybe that says something about his current mindset.

Be that as it may, the Dutch striker will have to work twice as hard and be patient before he manages to find a place in the starting XI. Almeida will continue to build on the work he started with Garcia and Araújo in pre-season in Holland and Van Wert, when he finally returns to training, will be considered the first change in attacking positions depending on how the game goes.

After all, in the conversations with the people of the team, the coach had made it clear that he preferred a player who would be willing to sit on the bench until it was his turn, while stressing that Garcia will develop further into the forward , which AEK should always have in her 11th grade.