He once said Marco van Basten, his former manager at Heerenveen and another famous Ajax alumnus, was “a big name but not a top coach”. Until the last couple of years there had, for all the impressive numbers, been question marks: Ziyech got into verbal dust-ups, clashed with coaches and sometimes fans, was prone to sulk and at one point was relieved of a short-lived captaincy at Twente. He is 27 and outwardly it comes as a surprise, in an age of few secrets, that it has taken this long for him to leave the Netherlands. Ziyech is a left-footed playmaker who creates but can score prolifically, too a sumptuous, borderline mercurial talent whose imagination in possession has few parallels. Photograph: Soccrates Images/Getty Images ‘For a child’s dream you just stole it down to the ground,’ he says of that night. Despair for Hakim Ziyech after Ajax’s defeat by Spurs last year.
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