Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 11:02 AM• Rian Rosendaal • Last update: 11:21

Valentijn Driessen comes with a striking suggestion following the lack of Ryan Babel in the preliminary European Championship selection of the Dutch national team. The chief football from The Telegraph believes that the influence of Johan Derksen has ensured that national coach Frank de Boer put a line through the name of the Galatasaray attacker. The analyst has indicated several times that he finds it incomprehensible that Babel is still an international.

“If you proclaim for a year that Babel is the most important man and put him first on the form. And it is the first to lose weight, that is not entirely true,” Driessen concludes on Wednesday morning in the morning show of Radio Veronica. “It is all for the stage, all because of Veronica Inside, I think, because of Johan (Derksen, ed.). That is how it is thought in camp Babel, that the influence of Johan reaches so far that even the national coach changes tack, yes. . “

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According to presenter Wilfred Genee, it would be ‘a sign of weakness’ from De Boer, if Driessen’s claim about Babel and Derksen is actually correct. According to him, it is a very wrong signal to the other the Dutch players. “Johan has also said that Remko Pasveer has to go into the goal, so you have to hope that De Boer will not participate in that too. Then it will be a very strange selection”, Driessen answers with a joke.

For Kenneth Perez, the passing of Babel came like a bolt from the blue. “Babel has always been there. I also found it very disrespectful,” the Dane emphasized on Monday Football talk from ESPN. “It was pretended that it makes no difference whether he comes or not. I think he has played eighty international matches (69 international matches, ed.) And he really can play football. He is now showing that in Turkey.” Babel was last not called up for the Dutch national team in 2017.