Stevens called back, stressing that he still had a contract with Roda Kerkrade and might even extend it. “That has nothing to do with it,” Assauer replied in his typical monosyllabic way. Everything had to happen quickly, before the newspapers caught the scent.\n\nAssauer arranged a secret meeting near the German-Dutch border on a Sunday morning. “We spoke and he told me he wanted to sign me for two years,” Stevens later recalled. “He said he would sort out my contract with Roda.” And he did – for one million guilders in compensation, roughly 453,000 euros.