In Football talk on ESPN Monday evening is amazed about the move from Oussama Idrissi to Ajax. The 25-year-old wing striker came on a rental basis from Seville in January, but hardly gets to play. This comes as no surprise to Sjoerd Mossou. “That is the fastest forgotten footballer of all time, I sometimes have the feeling”, says the journalist.
“I always think: Oh yes, there is still one.“, Mossou continues.” Of course he has not made such a very smart move. He was at Sevilla, that situation was not very strange. That’s a big club and when you get in there, you still have to earn it all. If you looked at Ajax and you looked at the positions and the occupation of those positions, then you could have seen this coming a bit. “At Ajax captain Dusan Tadic plays on the left, while David Neres and Antony also claim that position.
Mossou is surprised that Idrissi on Sunday against RKC Waalwijk (0-1) was not awarded any playing minutes by Erik ten Hag. Kenneth Perez agrees. “That doesn’t quite rhyme with the story that he has sixteen to eighteen basic players, all of them ‘troublemakers’,” said Perez. “That does not rhyme with not drafting Idrissi and Mohammed Kudus, for example. I am also not interested in rotating, but if you say A, you might also have to say B. Especially with the busy schedule that is coming now.”
Jeroen Elshoff has an explanation for Ten Hag’s policy. “There really is a kind of philosophy: you rotate towards these months and then the final phase, when the prizes are divided, you leave your regular team as much as possible,” said the commentator of the NOS. Perez responds to this. “He forgot to say that to Idrissi, haha.”