{"id":715199,"date":"2026-06-04T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:28:12","slug":"jan-paul-van-hecke-brighton-hove-albion-expect-second-tottenham-hotspur-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715199\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Paul van Hecke: Brighton & Hove Albion expect second Tottenham Hotspur bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton<\/a> are expecting Tottenham<\/a> to return with another bid for defender Jan Paul van Hecke after rejecting their initial offer.<\/p>\n

Van Hecke, who is part of the Netherlands’ World Cup squad<\/a>, has a year left on his contract and new Spurs boss Roberto de Zerbi is keen to be reunited with the 25-year-old after working with him at Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brighton<\/a> signed Van Hecke from Eredivisie outfit NAC Breda in 2020 for a relatively modest sum.<\/p>\n

He is reported to be valued now by Brighton<\/a> at \u00a370m.<\/p>\n

After loan spells at Heerenveen and Blackburn Rovers, the centre-back has gone on to make 131 appearances for Brighton<\/a>, including 36 starts in the Premier League last term.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Paul Barber was placed in charge of outgoing transfers by Brighton<\/a> in the wake of the unexpected exit of sporting director Jason Ayto, which was confirmed on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Brighton<\/a> are known for their hard-line bargaining stance having received fees in excess of \u00a350m for Moises Caicedo, Marc Cucurella and Joao Pedro in recent years, and also their forward planning.<\/p>\n

Given Van Hecke’s contract situation, it is likely Barber and owner Tony Bloom have a contingency in mind if a deal is eventually agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton are expecting Tottenham to return with another bid for defender Jan Paul van Hecke after rejecting their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-715199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}