Ouasim Bouy is on loan at PEC Zwolle from Leeds United.
Bouy joined Leeds in the summer of 2017 after leaving Italian giants Juventus and is now on loan at PEC Zwolle in the Netherlands.
The 25-year-old, who can operate as a central defender or as a defensive midfielder, had a loan spell at Cultural Leonesa last season and has yet to make an appearance for the Whites’ first team.
Former Crystal Palace manager De Boer was the youth coach of Ajax from 2007 until 2010, and the Dutchman has given his take on Bouy, who was on the books of the Eredivisie outfit from 2008 until 2012.
De Boer has compared Bouy to 25-year-old Netherlands international attacking midfielder Klaassen, who joined German club Bremen from Everton in the summer of 2018 for a transfer fee reported by The Liverpool Echo to be worth £12 million.
Voetbalzone.nl quotes De Boer as saying about Bouy: “He is the same age as Davy Klaassen, which is a textbook example of how things should be done and how they should not be done.”
De Boer added: “Klaassen became captain of Ajax, played for the Dutch national team, played in the Champions League and played a Europa League final.
“That’s what you want at that age. Bouy has wandered everywhere and is now loaned to PEC Zwolle. In my eyes, he had almost the same qualities as Klaassen.”
Leeds United future
Bouy is a good player, but the versatile footballer has not progressed as much as expected in recent years.
Given that the former Netherlands Under-19 international is away from the Leeds set-up for the second successive season, it is hard to see him having a future at Elland Road.
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