Sparta Rotterdam and SC Heerenveen are currently in the market for Dirk Proper, a player who has been playing less and less for his current employer NEC. He broke through in 2020 at NEC and helped the club to promotion back to the Eredivisie. Proper started well, but saw his playing time decrease in recent years. Last season, he started only five games in the base team due to the good form of Kodai Sano. Both Sparta and Heerenveen hope to lure him away from Nijmegen. In Rotterdam, he can reunite with Rogier Meijer, with whom he worked together at NEC in the past. Heerenveen sees in Proper a possible replacement for Joris van Overeem and Marcus Linday, for whom the club rejected offers this week. Because it is expected that Sano, who has been linked to PSV and VfB Stuttgart in recent weeks, a longer stay at NEC is not ruled out. Proper has a contract for one more season and Schreuder wants to keep him with the team, but can leave Nijmegen if the right amount is offered. The asking price for Proper is around one and a half million euros. Sparta Rotterdam's interest in Proper is logical, given the player's position and the club's need for reinforcement. The club from Rotterdam hopes that Proper can help to successfully complete the season. It is still unclear whether the transfer will actually take place, but it is clear that Sparta Rotterdam and Heerenveen are seriously interested in Proper's services. The coming weeks will provide more clarity on the player's future.