Wim Kieft questions the way in which Mohamed Ihattaren and Brian Brobbey were accompanied by their agent Mino Raiola. On the final day of the summer transfer market, Ihattaren left PSV for Juventus, which leased the attacking midfielder directly to Sampdoria. He did not play a single game for that club. Brobbey made the transfer-free transfer from Ajax to RB Leipzig and has since played less than hoped in the Bundesliga.
Ihattaren is on his way to FC Utrecht, but is currently not fit. He is currently coached by Gerald Vanenburg and will need time before he can return to the field. “It is a shame that the career of the talent Mohamed Ihattaren is in danger of falling between two stools. It does not surprise me that he was left to his fate at Sampdoria as he says,” Kieft responds in a column in The Telegraph on an interview Ihattaren gave this week. “That is often the fate that strikes you when you end up at smaller Italian clubs. It shows poor guidance from Mino Raiola that he lets a 19-year-old go from PSV to Juventus on the last transfer day and send them directly to Genoa.”
Candid Ihattaren tells his story: ‘Completely left to my fate’
Mohamed Ihattaren talked about his experiences at Sampdoria in an interview this week.
Brobbey’s story “doesn’t deserve the beauty prize either,” says Kieft. “Raiola plays a role in this as Brobbey’s supervisor,” the analyst adds. Brobbey finishes the season on a rental basis at his old club Ajax. “He has hardly played in Germany. You are told that this is because the trainer has left. But the club buys you and you know that the trainer can leave. Now he comes back for six months. I understand Ajax because they Losing Sébastien Haller for a while because of the Africa Cup. You do bring back a player who didn’t want to stay longer last summer and walked out the door for free.”
Ihattaren revealed in the interview with The Telegraph to this day have not received a single euro from Sampdoria. “What if I broke my leg there?” he said. “Then you see that everything is well organized in the Netherlands. We ate at the club after training and there were only three boxes of pizzas and sweet sandwiches. I also did not receive a salary, so I called the team manager. “We pay here every two months. “I heard. Only that didn’t happen. That’s not my point, but everything together it started to irritate. I didn’t play for a minute, there turned out to be zero perspective and everything needed to feel at home there, that was missing I called Mino (Raiola, ed.) to ask if we were going to arrange anything given the situation. He told me to keep calm.”
Following president Marco Lanna, coach Roberto D’Aversa also accused the midfielder of lies. “This is nonsense and not true,” D’Aversa said in a press conference the day before the home game against Torino. “From my point of view a newspaper should not waste a page on a player who has never been there.” Lanna had the same message. “This is all nonsense, it is big lies,” said the president of Sampdoria. “The whole interview was a lie. Everyone here says it’s not right.” Lanna, on the other hand, did not deny that Ihattaren does not receive any money from Sampdoria. “He just left and that’s why we were able to fine him. We’ve decided not to, but that means we won’t have to pay him a salary until the end of January. That’s the deal, agreed with his lawyers.”