Te Wierik, who grew up in the shirt of Heracles Almelo, settled in 2017 at FC Groningen. Apart from six months with Derby County in the first half of the 2020/21 season, he was under contract in the far north until Tuesday afternoon. In the hours that followed, Te Wierik, who grew into captain at FC Groningen, ignored a lucrative ‘sandbox offer’, among other things.
