Everton, West Ham United and Leicester City are the three Premier League clubs reportedly targeting AZ Alkmaar’s Eredivisie ace Oussama Idrissi.
Oussama Idrissi has hit heart set on a move to Ajax this summer, according to Corriere dello Sport, despite the potential of a Premier League switch to Everton, West Ham United or Leicester City.
If AZ coach Arne Slot is the Eredivisie’s answer to Pep Guardiola, then a Morocco international is his Lionel Messi.
Idrissi has taken his game to a whole new level under a coach whose free-flowing, all-action approach has been inspired by a former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss, producing 16 goals and eight assists from the left wing.
Calciomercato reports that the former Groningnen winger has emerged as a summer target for Premier League trio Everton, West Ham and Leicester – but it seems that he has his sights set on swapping Alkmaaar for Amsterdam instead.
There will be a Hakim Ziyech-shaped hole at Ajax next season and Idrissi reportedly ‘dreams’ of replacing his Morocco international team-mate at the Eredivisie champions once he completes his £33 million move to Chelsea.
But while Ziyech is at his best when drifting in from the right to weave magic with his wand of a left foot, Idrissi has thrived on the opposite flank in the red of AZ.
The 24-year-old is almost like a right-footed Arjen Robben; every full-back in the league knows what Idrissi is going to do but stopping him is another matter entirely. Many of his 16 goals have arrived in identical fashion; shifting the ball onto his favoured side before whipping an inch-perfect shot into the corner.
But with Quincy Promes and David Neres already fighting for a place in Ajax’s starting XI on the right-hand side, it is hard to see where Idrissi fits in, even in the post-Ziyech era.
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