‘Save your career’,‘leave Chelsea in January’ – Marco van Basten urges 29-years-old Chelsea star to leave club after Potter drop him in 3-0 win over Milan
According to latest reports, Hakim Ziyech has been pushed by Marco van Basten to leave Chelsea, claiming that the midfielder’s circumstances at Stamford Bridge are “not good for football.”
Ziyech has played in just two Premier League games so far this year, and in Chelsea’s past two games, Graham Potter benched him.
Tottenham, Manchester United, and AC Milan were all reportedly interested in the Moroccan international during the summer transfer window.
In order to save his career, Van Basten believes Ziyech should push for a transfer away from Chelsea in January.
Van Basten told Ziggo Sport: ‘There is another transfer window coming up.’
‘It is sad and a shame. Ziyech is a great player. We have to see someone like that, we watch TV for such a player and we come to the stadium.
‘It is a pity for the whole of football that he is on the bench. If these kinds of players do not get minutes, it is not good for football.’
Asked if he believes Ziyech would taken a step down to leave Chelsea, Van Basten said: ‘I don’t know but there is another problem.
‘There should actually be a rule that clubs can only have a certain number of players.
‘So they [Chelsea] have way too many and that actually makes football less interesting. A player like Ziyech could just play at another club and entertain the fans.
‘Soon there will be teams that have 35 players, five or six of whom never play. They could excel at other clubs.
‘All competitions must be reduced to eighteen clubs. Then you play a few fewer matches. Then you can’t use more than, say, 26 players during the season.
‘You see that it is possible. At Real Madrid, for example. They just have a normal selection and just eighteen to twenty players who always play. So in principle that should be possible.’