Hans Kraay junior doubts whether Justin Kluivert will reach the absolute top, he says in the program Football talk from ESPN. The 22-year-old attacker was within the lines for ninety minutes on Monday evening during the handsome 2-1 victory of the Juniors over Young France in the quarterfinals of the European Championship. Kenneth Perez concludes at the same time that it is no coincidence that Kluivert has not always been a basic player in the past season.
In the talk show a moment is cited when Kluivert shot wildly in a promising situation. “You saw a bit of the drowsy and uninhibited, I think that’s a shame. Because Kluivert has quite a nice kicking technique. At least, at Ajax he came in a number of times … This was so wild ”, Perez says. “He is a beautiful, technical football player”, Kraay comments. “He has a lot of speed. But I don’t have the idea that he will really reach the absolute top. ”
“It is still a boy. Of course he is young, but he has already played in Italy and Germany ”, concludes Henk Hoijtink, journalist of Faithful. Presenter and commentator Vincent Schildkamp points out that Kluivert ‘may have to play thirty games in a season’. Kluivert came in the past year, when he was rented out by AS Roma to RB Leipzig, although up to 29 games, but was only at the kick-off 9 times. In the 2018/19 season (35 matches, 18 starting places) and 2019/20 (31 matches, 26 starting places) he had a starting place more often.
“All those trainers are not crazy, are they”, Perez emphasizes. “Perhaps specific other things are required abroad. I think he has nice qualities. Only yes, the trainer of AS Roma or RB Leipzig still chooses others. That is fate. We often think it is ridiculous that Dutch players do not play at their club. The same goes for Ziyech. He’s part of the Champions League winner, albeit smaller than people hoped. But then it is said that it is ridiculous that Ziyech is not in the base. While they have just won the Champions League with the team, with its competitors. Those trainers will not be crazy, will they? ”