![]() So we need sometimes more a football solution, try to keep the ball with the team, move the ball faster, to really blow the opponent away. “I’ve seen so far against the three clubs who have played a lot of long balls that if you go in and play their game, you’ll see the ball coming back quite quickly. “I think we have a lot of guys in our squad who are really good with the ball and I think if we can find the right players on the right positions – and it can be different every week of course – and we can bring our football game into every weekend or every Tuesday, you can play really good football but also be really successful,” he said. The Championship will be the physical challenge he wants and it will also be a test for how he can dictate the tempo of games which are normally played at a furious pace. Three games in the first nine days he had been at the club. “And then with the whole plan about the club, how ambitious they are, what the goals are for the club, I just had a feeling that I want to be a part of that and thought that it was the right move in my career as well.”īurger made his introduction as a sub at Millwall, scored 72 seconds into a 6-1 cup hammering of Rotherham on his home debut and made his first league start in the home defeat to Preston just before the international break. I think I have a good pass and with all those aspects I always thought that I would fit into England or to Germany. He said: “I think, if I look at my playing style, I will fit quite well into English football with my size, with my height, with my physical abilities, but also with my football abilities and what I can bring into the game. His senior career has since taken him from Feyenoord to Basel, where he has spent the last two years before a move to Stoke in late August for an undisclosed fee believed to be just north of £4 million. He starred in group games up the road at St George’s Park in Burton and scored from the spot when they beat Italy in a shoot-out in the final at Rotherham. READ MORE: Stoke City best starting XI, undroppables and major dilemmasīurger is laughing but England does seem like a good fit for a player who has represented Holland at every youth level, including winning the under-17s European Championships here in 2018. READ MORE: What Alex Neil and Ricky Martin said about every Stoke City signing I hadn’t really played darts in the last few years but now we’ve got the dartboard up in the canteen and it’s been nice to pick it up again and throw some arrows every day.” “Always around Christmas time, around December, it’s the World Championships (to watch on television), I haven’t been so that’s a little dream still. “(Michael) Van Gerwen is still the one at the moment who is really good,” said Burger. To be fair again, the Netherlands hasn’t done too badly for itself in the darts stakes over the years either. I maybe score more of the higher scores but he’s better at finishing. “To be fair Luke is a little bit better at finishing than me. ![]() “At the moment I am playing against Luke (McNally) every morning after breakfast and after lunch,” he said. When Wouter Burger admitted he was coming to Stoke to work on improving his game, he was genuinely thinking about football.īut it’s taken the 22-year-old midfielder less than a month in the world capital of darts to realise he has work to do on his doubles too.
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