Ajax Omits Troubled Midfielder Ihattaren from Champions League Squad

If Mohamed Ihattaren had a chance to be on the Ajax list, it has passed since last Friday, the deadline for registering players. UEFA has updated its data taking into account the information sent to it by the clubs. The Moroccan’s name is not on it and many reasons have motivated this choice of the Ajax management.

There are the personal problems that the player has been dragging on for some time, but also the fact that he has not really trained with the club. According to Alfred Schreuder, Ajax’s coach, the 20-year-old player should be absent from the field for a good while, the time to remedy his loss of form, writes AD.

While the club is using a loss of form as an excuse to justify the player’s sidelining, De Telegraaf thinks that Ajax’s decision is linked to the player’s alleged rapprochement with the criminal milieu and the threats and intimidation he would have received. It would therefore be out of fear of reprisals that the latter has been sidelined.