Steven Berghuis, born on 19 December 1991 (age 34), is a Dutch attacking midfielder and winger whose career has been built around left-footed delivery, timing in the final third and a steady capacity to produce goals from wide areas.
He came through in the Netherlands with Twente, but the useful early education came on loan at VVV-Venlo. That spell gave him senior football away from the safer edges of a parent club, and it helped set up his move to AZ, where he became a more regular Eredivisie player.
A move to Watford in 2015 did not become the main line of his career. His return to Dutch football with Feyenoord mattered far more. He first joined them on loan, then permanently, and his best league season came in 2017-18, when he scored 18 goals in 31 appearances.
Berghuis moved to Ajax in 2021, a transfer with the usual domestic noise attached to it given the route from Feyenoord to Amsterdam. He remained a significant first-team player there, used both wide and centrally, rather than being fixed to one narrow role.
His current market value is around £3m, according to Transfermarkt. His career has been a largely Dutch one, shaped by an early loan, a brief English detour, a productive Feyenoord peak and a later spell at Ajax.
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