“Ajax is the only club in the Netherlands that can take a gamble with a few million”
Cristian Willaert, reporter on behalf of ESPN, sees Mohamed Ihattaren as a responsible gamble for Ajax. The player has the potential to become a gifted footballer and Ajax is the club in the Netherlands that can take such a gamble.
‘Ajax spends two million plus salary on this. If it’s a success, they’ll sell it to a major league in two out of three years for thirty, forty million,” Willaert said. football talk. ‘If that chance is twenty percent, it is already a golden deal for Ajax. They can take the risk. They are the only club in the Netherlands that can take a gamble with a few million. Then it’s not such a crazy gamble.’
Former Ajax player Hedwiges Maduro hopes that Ihattaren will be provoked and will therefore succeed in Amsterdam. “I hope he wants to shut people up. The feeling of: everyone has talked enough about me. I’m going to let my feet speak now. I just hope so, we all want to know what he can do.’
Moreover, the former international is of the opinion that all preconditions are present at Ajax to succeed. ‘The culture and environment are super important to him. At Ajax he comes into a somewhat harder culture than at PSV. If you act crazy, you will be immediately attacked by everyone. I think he needs that.’