Premier League outfit Everton missed out on a summer move for Mohammed Kudus and the Ajax ace could soon be worth ‘70 million euros’, former Dutch international Keje Molenaar tells Het Parool.
Talk about showing the Toffees what they’re missing.
Kudus wriggled through a couple of challenges and breezed into the Rangers penalty area. From the tightest of angles, the Ghana international needed something special to find a way past an admittedly out-of-sorts Jon McLaughlin in the visiting goal. Seconds later, the ball was nestling in the back of the Gers net; Kudus slamming a fizzing left-footed shot in off the far post.
‘Something special’ indeed.
“I think that Kudus will now break through at Ajax,” Molenaar says of the former Nordsjaelland talisman.
Kudus, after a difficult start to the season on and off the pitch, has now scored in successive games.
“He played really well (against Rangers),” Molenaar adds. “He will soon be able to bring in seventy million euros.”
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To think, just last week, Kudus failed to turn up to training as he looked to ‘do an Antony’ and force through a move to England (Voetbal International). Everton submitted a £15 million bid for the one-time Tottenham Hotspur target. But, after selling Antony, Lisandro Martinez and Sebastien Haller in the very same summer – while attempting to keep Edson Alvarez out of Chelsea’s clutches – that was an offer Ajax had no intention of accepting.
That hard-line stance has been justified in double-quick time too. Alvarez opened the scoring against a lily-livered Rangers before Kudus lit up the game with a goal befitting the loftiest of stages.
“He really has everything a good midfielder should have,” says ex-Ajax skipper Rafael van der Vaart. “He is incredibly strong on the ball. A wonderful player to watch.
“That is why Ajax did not let him go. I think they’re going to have a lot of fun watching him.”
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