Ruud Gullit blasts Donny van de Beek’s Everton move, suggests club have repeated previous mistake
Moving to Everton was a “stupid choice” for Donny van de Beek just like it was for Davy Klaassen because the team doesn’t attack according to Ruud Gullit.
The Manchester United loanee is currently out of the side with injury, but after a strong start has struggled to thrive in the Toffees’ relegation battle and may be headed back to Old Trafford in the summer.
Klaassen was one of the many big-money flops during Farhad Moshiri’s reign, arriving from Ajax for nearly £24million in 2017, only playing seven Premier League games, and departing a year later for a loss of around 50%.
Dutch legend Gullit is apparently sick of the way the club uses his compatriots and thinks it makes no difference if van de Beek plays or not.
The former Chelsea man told Ziggo Sport, via FC Update: “They don’t miss that much. You can see it in the positions where he comes. He comes to get the ball in his own half. He shouldn’t have it there.
“The annoying thing for Donny is that he made the same mistake as Davy Klaassen. He is going to play for a team that does not play attacking football. Then you have nothing to do with these kind of guys.
“I think it’s a stupid choice. Maybe he will get through it again under Ten Hag [if he takes over at Man Utd], but you have to be able to play that football. Everton does not have those players, we have seen that by now.”
Stinging
It is a damning assessment of both the club’s transfer policy in the years under Moshiri, and the overall quality of the team.
Gullit, a famous proponent of “sexy football”, clearly sees little to get excited about with the Toffees.
And if it is an issue that has repeated itself five years apart it doesn’t inspire huge confidence going forward.
Indeed, with van de Beek dropped for the win against Newcastle, and missing with injury until loan rules kept him out of the Man United victory, he is unlikely to get a chance to make a huge impact again.
The clear implication from Gullit is that the club do not know how to identify the right players for them.
And that when they bring them in they proceed to use them incorrectly.
That would explain why there is a depressingly long list of expensive failures in recent years, and hundreds of millions in financial losses.
Dutch midfielders might think twice about making the switch in future, especially if the ex-AC Milan man has anything to do with it.
In other Everton news, his teammates were conspicuous by their absence as United, Ajax and Netherlands stars congratulated van de Beek on big news this weekend.
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