The German outfit have signed the Dutch midfielder after he made just seven Premier League appearances for the Merseyside club <\/p>\n
Davy Klaassen has brought a disappointing 12-month spell at Everton to an end after joining Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old cost Everton in the region of \u00a324 million ($31m) in July 2017 but he struggled to break into the first team at Goodison Park, making just three Premier League starts as the club went through a succession of managerial changes.<\/p>\n
Ronald Koeman, who signed Klaassen, was sacked three months after the midfielder’s arrival and successor Sam Allardyce opted not to utilise the Netherlands international.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Klaassen has now completed a move to Werder, who are said to have paid Everton close to \u00a312m.<\/p>\n Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt said he had been tracking Klaassen for a while, telling the club’s official website: “We have been watching him for a long time and are glad that this opportunity has opened up.<\/p>\n “With his strategic sense, Davy is able to set a rhythm for the game, impresses with his creativity and is strong and aggressive at the same time.”<\/p>\n Klaassen’s career began at Ajax, where he won three Eredivisie titles and captained the Amsterdam side in the 2017 Europa League final, in which they were beaten by Manchester United.<\/p>\n He said the strength of Werder’s desire to sign him made the club an obvious choice of destination.<\/p>\n “Werder made intensive efforts,” he said. “It was important to me to know exactly where the journey was going on the pitch. The ambitions of the club have convinced me.<\/p>\n “After my exchange with Florian Kohfeldt, I have a very good feeling that I can make an important contribution here with my abilities.<\/p>\n “The coach wants to play attractive, offensive football. I am really looking forward to this.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The German outfit have signed the Dutch midfielder after he made just seven Premier League appearances for the Merseyside club Davy Klaassen has brought a disappointing 12-month spell at Everton to an end after joining Bundesliga side Werder Bremen. The 25-year-old cost Everton in the region of \u00a324 million ($31m) in July 2017 but he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n