Erwin van de Looi was there on Sunday Good morning Eredivisie critical of Joshua Zirkzee. The Bayern Munich striker was recently allowed to play at the Juniors for the first time and made a good impression on Van de Looi. The trainer thinks there is still a lot of room for improvement, he showed. Willem van Hanegem is annoyed by those statements.

“Zirkzee is a very young player. He is talented, is written up by everyone reasonably well and that is fine too, only we have other good strikers. Dani de Wit, Myron Boadu and Kaj Sierhuis did an excellent job, ”said Van de Looi on Sunday at the program of FOX Sports. Hans Kraay junior asked him whether Zirkzee is potentially the best striker at the Juniors. “I don’t know,” said Van de Looi. “He still has to prove that. He is talented and can do a lot. He is good at the ball, but it can also contain a little more poison. Some players are so talented that there is a sense of indolence. He does have that appearance now and then. ”

Van Hanegem received the words of Van de Looi and cannot agree with them. “In my columns I once talked about Joshua Zirkzee and when I watch matches of the Dutch Juniors, I suddenly hear that unknown national coach Marcel Groninger scream his name foamingly for fifteen minutes. And his companion Erwin van der Looi also found all kinds of things wrong with Zirkzee on TV on Sunday, I heard ”, said the Curve. “I think that measuring with two measures. That was also the case for Hakim Ziyech and Frenkie de Jong for a long time. ”

Ziyech and De Jong were also criticized in the past, while Van Hanegem looked at the ex-Ajax players differently. “I was positive about those two early on, then I feel certain people started looking for what they couldn’t do. That is over. In fact, when Frenkie now reaches his normal level, they scream words like ‘phenomenal’ and ‘unparalleled’ on TV. He played well against Italy, but it was only 1-1 in Bergamo and Italy really had the best chances. Then I would save ‘phenomenal’ and ‘matchless’ for another time. ”