Michael Beale may have been kept waiting a little bit longer than he would have wanted to get Cyriel Dessers in the doors of Auchenhowie.
But then again, Dessers has made a habit of leaving the best till last in a career which, not all that long ago, seemed destined to take him to the top of the European game. During a season long loan deal with Feyenoord, in 2021/22, the Belgian born striker ended the inaugural Conference League campaign as the top scorer in the entire competition - with a ten goal haul which pipped Roma’s talisman Tammy Abraham by one.
And, during that blistering campaign, he even earned himself the nickname of Mr 90+2 because he came off the bench to bag three winning goals in the space of a week, all in the same minute of injury time. Some Feyenoord fans even got the name and number printed on the back of their replica shirts as Dessers quickly secured cult hero status at De Kuip.
