PSV has given up hope in Mohamed Ihattaren, Valentijn Driessen claims Veronica Inside. The journalist from The Telegraph considers it almost certain that Ihattaren, which will be fixed until mid-2022, will leave Eindhoven next summer. “I think he will generate a maximum of four to five million euros,” says Driessen.
“I have heard that they have taken their hands off him at PSV: it is over”, says the journalist. “Don’t you think they dropped him very quickly?” He asks, among others, Rik Elfrink, who Eindhovens Dagblad follows. “Last year he was still the big revelation under Mark van Bommel, the man of thirty or forty million,” continues Driessen. “It’s over one year later with Roger Schmidt.”
Elfrink recognizes himself in the image sketched by Driessen. “I think Valentine is pretty warm. You are always on a thin line in such a situation. For the same money he shoots two in ten minutes. But he is also influenced by Jan and everyone of course. I think. that it is just very complicated for him to manage this world at the age of nineteen. “
Johan Derksen agrees. “It’s complicated too, Rik”, says Derksen. “If you drive a car like that when you are nineteen, you get that salary, your father dies, and you have all kinds of profiteers around you who want to eat along; then you get confused. coach can’t deal with it, that’s possible. But I had expected Toon Gerbrands to have the peace and quiet and the life experience to solve the problem with that boy. “
Elfrink knows that PSV has been busy with Ihattaren a lot. “They have just really talked a lot with him, Johan. It is of course partly in himself: he has to take that step himself. But I think PSV really sees it as a defeat that he does not succeed. I think that they consider that internally as a real defeat. If you’ve trained such a boy for ten years, then you want to reap the benefits. If that doesn’t work, no club likes it. “
According to René van der Gijp, PSV cannot necessarily be blamed for the failed marriage with Ihattaren. “Sometimes a club can’t do much about that either. You know what it is: what have they done at Feyenoord with that Leonardo? Pampered, parents to the Netherlands, a house, everything … Shopping … Sometimes it doesn’t work, then it stops. I don’t think the little man (Ihattaren, ed.) Has the feeling that the trainer has much faith in him.