{"id":620659,"date":"2026-06-04T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:16:11","slug":"tottenham-make-transfer-bid-for-70m-world-cup-bound-brighton-star-as-roberto-de-zerbi-raids-former-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620659\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham make transfer bid for \u00a370m World Cup-bound Brighton star as Roberto De Zerbi raids former club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The timing of Tottenham&#8217;s approach comes as Van Hecke prepares for the 2026 World Cup with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/netherlands-squad-world-cup-2026\/bltab8e400140133c06\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Netherlands<\/a>. He recently played 87 minutes in a friendly against Algeria and remains part of Ronald Koeman&#8217;s defensive plans heading into the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Since arriving from NAC Breda in 2020, Van Hecke has steadily established himself as a reliable Premier League defender. Loan spells at Heerenveen and Blackburn Rovers aided his development before he became a regular starter for Brighton. Last season, he started 36 Premier League matches under Hurzeler, underlining both his durability and importance to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The timing of Tottenham&#8217;s approach comes as Van Hecke prepares for the 2026 World Cup with the Netherlands.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[25672,218,210767,1463,221,210768,101,919,568,56,54,55,6526],"class_list":["post-620659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-brighton-hove-albion","tag-football","tag-j-van-hecke","tag-netherlands","tag-premier-league","tag-r-de-zerbi","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}