Ajax was 2-1 too strong for Vitesse on Saturday evening. The victory was won despite the fact that the team from Amsterdam played more than half with one man less. Mohammed Kudus made an excellent impression, according to Theo Janssen. The former midfielder is deeply impressed by the qualities of the purchase, while he is a lot less enthusiastic about Quincy Promes as number ten. Janssen thinks that the Orange International will do better in a different position, he says on Sunday evening on the television program Studio Football.

After the departure of Donny van de Beek to Manchester United, trainer Erik ten Hag has chosen Promes in the number ten position. The Orange-international was accurate for the first time against Vitesse on Saturday evening. Yet Janssen thinks that Promes is not the right number ten for Ajax. “In football itself, so when Ajax is building up, he doesn’t participate at all. In the last thirty or forty meters, he is super dangerous. Then he comes for the goal and creates opportunities for himself. In the final phase Promes on ten: fine. But before that? If Ajax wanted to build up, they just missed an extra footballer. ”

Janssen would rather see Promes play in a different position, but then wonders which player should disappear from trainer Erik ten Hag’s team. “The problem is: who will you remove? Labyad has now been victimized a few times from the rush hour. He did have a good preparation ”, said the former Ajax player. “I would prefer to see Tadic in the rush hour, Promes from the left and Antony from the right. And then maybe just Jurgen Ekkelenkamp in midfield, because they really miss a footballer in midfield. ”

Janssen saw that Vitesse got off to a good start on Saturday. “I thought Vitesse started very well. You saw that Ajax had a very hard time with that ”, he continues, before handing out compliments to Kudus. “That is really a good player. He is very decisive for how Ajax now plays. Edson Álvarez is standing next to it and in possession you don’t have much use for him, he plays the ball wide or back. They got him as a defender and he now plays in midfield. He’s fine defensively, but it’s not very good at the ball. ”