Aad de Mos does not think things will go well between Mohamed Ihattaren and PSV. The attacker recently received a disciplinary punishment from the Eindhoven club and it is highly questionable whether the nineteen-year-old talent will sign a new contract. According to De Mos, too much went wrong in the preliminary phase, aiming at the teams from fourteen to eighteen years old at PSV. “There were many CIOS boys there as trainers at PSV for a long time. Ihattaren has become a victim of this. ”
Today, many former footballers are now playing for these teams, but De Mos points out that PSV is still experiencing the consequences of the previous era. Another great talent, Zakaria Bakkali, also dropped out of the PSV boat early on. “Players of Moroccan origin have to be tackled hard, they want that too,” emphasizes De Mos on Tuesday in conversation with the Algemeen Dagblad. “The opposite happened at PSV. They were treated like princes. ”
De Mos has often visited the youth of PSV in recent years. “If Bakkali had played a good match in the youth, he would not have to return with the players’ bus, but could drive home with his father in the car. If Ihattaren came to the club too fat, he could still go to youth tournaments ”, sums up the former PSV trainer. “Of course you never cultivate the hardness and mentality that is needed at top level in this way. You can now see that again. ”
De Mos thinks that Ajax understands how to train players much better, referring to former players such as Winston Bogarde, Michael Reiziger and Ronald de Boer. “Not only technically and tactically, former professionals have more baggage than the CIOS boys; also mentally they know much better how to prepare talents for the top. ” Naturally, the footballers themselves also have their share in the situation. The trainer at rest calls Riechedly Bazoer, who is currently being disciplined by Vitesse, ‘a revolving door error maker who is simply wrong’. “Ready. Will never reach the top again. ”
De Mos thinks the same could apply to Ihattaren. “If he does not change his behavior quickly and he continues to work with an agent (Mino Raiola, ed.) Who does not hold up a mirror to him, Ihattaren will be the next talent about whom we will not hear anything anymore. It makes perfect sense that Roger Schmidt is not drafting him. Ihattaren does not show it. And the truth is always on the field. ” De Mos would quickly bring former football player Adil Ramzi back to the PSV technical staff as a last resort. “Not necessarily just for Ihattaren; someone with his status and background can also mean a lot to other immigrant boys. ” If Ramzi fails, then it is finished, De Mos concludes. “Then nobody will succeed.”