{"id":820564,"date":"2025-01-17T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/the-fire-is-still-burning-super-eagles-striker-hints-at-eredivisie-return\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:12:10","slug":"the-fire-is-still-burning-super-eagles-striker-hints-at-eredivisie-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/the-fire-is-still-burning-super-eagles-striker-hints-at-eredivisie-return\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe fire is still burning\u201d \u2013 Super Eagles striker hints at Eredivisie return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0_Cyriel-Dessers-before-his-Rangers-goal-was-disallowed.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img width=\"750\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0_Cyriel-Dessers-before-his-Rangers-goal-was-disallowed-750x499.jpg\" alt=\"Soccer \u201cThe fire is still burning\u201d \u2013 Super Eagles striker hints at Eredivisie return\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-full-width=\"810\" data-full-height=\"539\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles and Rangers striker, Cyriel Kolawole Dessers, has hinted a possible return to the Dutch top-flight after falling down the pecking order at Ibrox, <a href=\"https:\/\/Soccernet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has seen his playing time reduce in the last few months, as he\u2019s blown hot and cold in front of goal. Moroccan forward, Hamza Igamane, is now Philippe Clement\u2019s preferred choice to lead Rangers attack.<\/p>\n<p>Dessers has been linked with a move away from Rangers. At his age, he\u2019s hungry to play as many games and score as many goals as he possibly can before a physical decline begins, and is set to do that elsewhere if an offer comes in.<\/p>\n<p>While he\u2019s admitted he\u2019ll put the team first and be ready to help the Gers whenever he\u2019s called upon, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/we-need-to-talk-cyriel-dessers-breaks-silence-amidst-transfer-exit-links-from-rangers.html\">Dessers<\/a><\/strong> also hinted he\u2019d love a return to play in the Eredivisie, the league where he had his big break.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBack to the Netherlands for me? Difficult.<span id=\"54a8aeea-b11f-4e02-abdf-e3a95d6223b7\">\u00a0Feyenoord<\/span> now have three excellent strikers. The other clubs I played for also have a special place in my heart, but I do have a certain price and there are only a few clubs that can pay that.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I want to play in a serious <span id=\"b7e6231b-6103-4973-af41-6f45d25a6807\">competition<\/span>, for the prizes. The <span id=\"89813ead-f24b-4c8a-b7f5-99d4863de88c\">fire<\/span> is still burning,\u201d the former Genk striker said in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/we-need-to-talk-cyriel-dessers-breaks-silence-amidst-transfer-exit-links-from-rangers.html\">The Scottish Sun<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1028924823-1024x682.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"682\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146801\">Italian football Coppa Italia match \u2013 Semifinal \u2013 ACF Fiorentina vs US Cremonese David Okereke and Cyriel Dessers of U.S. Cremonese during the Coppa Italia Semi Final match between ACF Fiorentina vs US Cremonese at Stadio Artemio Franchi on April 27, 2023 in Florence, Italy. Florence Artemio Franchi stadium Italy Copyright: xDomenicoxCippitellix\/xLiveMediax LPS_916504. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dessers\u2019 career in the Dutch top-flight league started with NAC Breda before he joined FC Utrecht. After two years, he joined Heracles where he scored 18 goals and provided six assists in 29 games.<\/p>\n<p>His success there earned him a move to Belgian Pro League side, KRC Genk. Since then, he\u2019s played for Feyenoord, Cremonese and most recently, Rangers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"Soccer Adefolahan Guerreiro\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/740e257566cac1cbb2887e0f85afd655?s=80&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/guerreiro\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAdefolahan Guerreiro\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n<p>He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/the-fire-is-still-burning-super-eagles-striker-hints-at-eredivisie-return.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Super Eagles and Rangers striker, Cyriel Kolawole Dessers, has hinted a possible return to the Dutch top-flight after falling down the pecking order at Ibrox, Soccernet.ng reports. The 30-year-old has seen his playing time reduce in the last few months, as he\u2019s blown hot and cold in front of goal. Moroccan forward, Hamza Igamane, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4948,599,2005],"tags":[42747,9622],"class_list":{"0":"post-820564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the","8":"category-burning","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-the","11":"tag-burning"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}