Te Kloese acknowledges Forest's bid for Gimenez failed to persuade the club or the player

Despite interest from the Premier League, the Dutch club successfully retained forward Santiago Gimenez.

Te Kloese admits that Nottingham Forest’s bid for Gimenez never convinced the club nor the player.

"I think that Santi has shown in the past two years that he is a very important player for Feyenoord," Te Kloese began to tell ESPN. 

"The statistics also speak for him. I think that he had a fantastic first half of the season last year, in which he was very valuable in the second half of the season.

"I think that the expectation was that several clubs outside of Nottingham Forest would come. They did come, fortunately we were able to keep that internal. 

“I think that he was not one hundred percent convinced about Nottingham. And we as a club were not one hundred percent convinced about a transfer to Nottingham. That is why we decided to sit down with him and his management, well we are just going to continue."