Frenkie is not a 10 so why would you play him there. Vd Beek doesnt have the awareness, creativity or technical ability to be a playmaker, at all. He's a good all round midfielder with a lot of drive forward. If he improves his finishing he could do well at a subtop club, but Im hard pressed to name any ability bar goalscoring he's better at than Frenkie de Jong. If anything Vd Beek is the dissonant in Ajax fluidity. Which is also why he,'s not being linked to the top clubs.
Frenkie de Jong hogs the ball because that's his role, he baits the opponent into pressuring him and then puts the ball past them or dribbles past them. That's the quality that makes him a unique talent.
Now I'm off to wash my fecking keyboard, because all this praising of Ajax' players is making my Feyenoord hart bleed.
No, the question should be why should the coach use Van De Beek as a no 10 eventhough he isn't one since you're making an excuse for Frenkie? Better still, why judge him as a no 10?
You said Beek isn't creative yet he has so many assists to his name? Even his YouTube video shows he's a creative playmaking midfielder. Have you watched "Van De Beek, the balancer" clip? That video clips showed a lot of him operating as a playmaking no 6 and that already put this argument to bed. (I'm not allowed to post clip right now but the video clip I suggested showed a lot of him as a no 6)
Frenkie hogs the ball even when there's no reason to do that. Watch his Bayern and Madrid clips. At times, he would just be standing stationary on the ball even while there were options. If you watched these clips and even the one against Juventus, hardly would you see Frenkie make one touch passes. He always has this need to feel the ball lot more with his feet before making a pass, the most annoying one was the one against Madrid after he had beat Modric, he kept on going despite the options around until he eventually lost the ball.
Van De Beek on the hand often make several one touch passes. He is already aware of whom to pick before he gets on the ball and his range of passing is far incisive than Frenkie. Likewise his terrific movement. There's a reason why he was the one singled out to be deployed in the no 10 role out of himself, Schone and Frenkie. I don't even see the reason why he should be judged in the no 10 role eventhough he's done well so far but that's not his best role. He's at his best as a no 6 and that's where he should be judged!
Btw, I ain't Beek's mum.
@KirkDuyt, watch the clip I asked you to and see if Beek can't handle pressure or doesn't make one/two touches passes in the no 6 role. Besides, Frenkie often dwell on the ball even when there are options around him. I just don't see the fluidity in his game when compared to Beek in the same no 6 role. Anyway, it all depends on how the coach continues to use Beek. If Beek goes back to the midfield role, I bet he would eventually rise above Frenkie but not in the pseudo no 10 role he has been playing so far.
I would liken Frenkie to Kovacic who is much more comfortable in the no 6 role (which was where he broke out at Inter) however he doesn't look fluid to me as a playmaker. I said this on a forum I was then that Kovacic doesn't look like a playmaker when Chelsea signed him and that he looks much better as a no 6 not because he operate as a playmaker in the role but his movement, spatial awareness and decision making which are all average could be glossed over in that role while his ball skills and passing skills could be put to use and more pronounced in as a no 6 and when you add the fact that he's no slouch in the defensive department. That's what I see in Frenkie.
