“De Jong and De Ligt’s Ajax was not a team like it is now”

The ex-footballer Rafael van der Vaart believes that Dusan Tadic is the best player in the Eredivisie and that the Serbian forward has converted the Ajax in a stable team and more team than before. “A few seasons ago Ajax had incredible individual players with Matthijs de Ligt, Frenkie de Jong and Hakim Ziyech, but the team was not a team, as it is now,” he told De Telegraaf.

“Tadic has become a true leader, a player who has put the team on his back.” And Van der Vaart is clear about the secret: “He lives like a monk, he’s super professional and he’s always fit!”

On the contrary, he makes a slight criticism of the performance of Mario Götze, since he arrived at PSV: “His arrival was enormously inflated. If you have followed his career in recent years, you will see that things have not been so great after his time at Borussia Dortmund. He left Dortmund, spent time at Bayern, returned to Dortmund, got sick and had some things. I think he is a great player, but I have the feeling that he is only 70 percent of the player he was. ”

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