Ajax won 5-1 against sc Heerenveen on Sunday and has now collected one point less than leader PSV. Lassina Traoré was given a spot as a striker by trainer Erik ten Hag, but Hugo Borst is not really impressed by the nineteen-year-old attacker. “Strong guy, not like that, but he lacks finesse. And a lot more”, Borst writes in it Algemeen Dagblad.

“What a poverty. Such an extremely rich club and then having the most important position in a team occupied by a senior or the trainer’s favorite or an eternal talent”, Borst also refers to Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Zakaria Labyad in his column. . “This is a history lesson. Necessarily. Marc Overmars is a good technical director, he knows that the best strikers in the Netherlands played at Ajax. Let’s call it a tradition. But keep it intact. Work on that seriously. It has been for years. not right in the zone where a real number 9 should excel. “

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Borst points to Johan Cruijff, Marco van Basten, Patrick Kluivert, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suárez, among others. “What have we been looking at in recent years? Bad strikers, young strikers, nice strikers, average strikers. On Wednesday against Liverpool, Tadic is in the center of the striker again. He does that well, but he remains an occasional striker. Why was Lewandowski not scouted when he was sixteen. ? Or Aubameyang? Or Lukaku? Where exactly are things going wrong in scouting? Or does the youth academy fail? Donyell Malen left Ajax at the age of sixteen, Steven Bergwijn at the age of thirteen. “

The columnist sees that Ajax has this summer with winger Antony and midfielder Mohammed Kudus roped in ‘great players’, but believes that the club should have made more work of a striker. “Schraalhans is king. Ten Hag said it himself: Ajax has searched diligently for a number 9 last summer. They could not find him. They say that it will be Brian Brobbey. Really? Of the level Cruijff? Van Basten? Kluivert? Zlatan? ? Suárez? “