Ronald de Boer is particularly pleased with Jay Gorter. The former international and analyst mentions the 21-year-old goalkeeper of Ajax in the program Rondo by Ziggo Sports a ‘violent man’, but thinks it will take a while before he gets a place under the bar with the team from Amsterdam. De Boer would temporarily prefer Remko Pasveer over André Onana, who will be eligible to play again from next week after his doping suspension.
“I happened to hear on the radio that Pasveer on average has a better rescue rate than Onana. So Pasveer is doing very well. If he keeps up like that, he’ll stay number one. But if he has an injury, you have Onana up his sleeve. That’s nice. That’s how Ten Hag is in it,” says De Boer. Youri Mulder asks him how Gorter is doing. The closing item was taken over by Ajax from Go Ahead Eagles last summer and this season, for the time being, they have kept six matches for Young Ajax. Gorter was on the reserve bench with the main force thirteen times.
“I think he’s a killer, from what I’ve seen of him. I just think sometimes things go wrong in his head. That’s why he was sent away from Ajax in the past, I think. He is potentially a great goalkeeper, but I think they first want to see him in Young Ajax for a year,” De Boer responds. Gorter played in Ajax’s youth academy between 2010 and 2014 and then returned to Amsterdam via AFC, AZ and Go Ahead Eagles.
Gorter said last summer in conversation with The Telegraph that his height was the main reason for his departure from Ajax. “I was quite short and Ajax thought that was a problem at the time. Only after my time in Amsterdam did I go through a growth spurt and now I am 1.91 meters”, said Gorter. He did call himself ‘not an easy teenager’, a ‘ bravado little man” who could sometimes get ‘brutal.’ “If I had gone up in the air faster and had been calmer in my head earlier, I would have made it a lot easier for myself.”
Incidentally, Marco van Basten would ultimately prefer Onana over Pasveer and Gorter. “Onana seems better to me, potentially certainly. I don’t know to what extent he is match fit and has the level he had a year ago. Ten Hag can determine that better than I can. I’d go for the better keeper, even though it sucks knowing he’s leaving. You have to deal with that.”