Theo Janssen and Wim Kieft are surprised by the situation surrounding Rayane Bounida. The Ajax talent was actually supposed to start in the starting line-up on Wednesday, but arrived too late. Fred Grim therefore decided to bench him, while the two analysts look at it differently.
“I’m always too early, but that’s an anomaly,” Kieft starts laughing about Bounida’s late arrival at Ziggo Sports. “I can’t imagine that trainers do this when you are late for the first time. Maybe there is something behind it and it has happened before. It has to do with discipline. In any case, I think it is a great shame.”
Janssen is also surprised by the situation. “This is very special,” adds the former midfielder. “You’re in a hotel. How can you be late? It’s just up two flights of stairs and you’re in the dining room or in the meeting room. As a team, you also look out for each other and if you know that a player has that tendency, you knock on the door.”
“We don’t have such strict rules,” says Janssen, when asked about his own approach. The former Ajax player is a trainer at De Treffers, but he would do it differently. “When we play at home, we eat at four o’clock and then the boys have to gather. Then I arrive quietly and I really don’t count whether everyone is there.”
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