There’s nothing like a supportive parent, and it seems Wout Weghorst’s is up there with the best of them. That’s at least if journalist Valentijn Driessen’s latest comments on the former Burnley man are anything to go by.
Soccer News cover comments from Driessen today after he had an impromptu meeting with Weghorst’s mother over the weekend.
The striker made the move to Ajax from Burnley this summer after returning to Turf Moor following a loan spell at Hoffenheim.
Neither he nor Burnley were interested in continuing their relationship and after months of speculation and links to numerous different clubs, he eventually ended up at Ajax.
That move has been heavily criticised, with many debating why the Dutch side would bother signing the veteran striker when they already had Brian Brobbey, Chuba Akpom and Julian Rijkhoff in the squad.
That suggested there was little need to sign him and the money used to do so from Burnley, €2.38m to be exact, would have been better spent amid Ajax’s rebuild this summer.
It seems the comments being made in the media haven’t gone unnoticed by his mother, who was keen to confront Driessen in the recent clash with Go Ahead Eagles.
“I was standing in the press stand at Go Ahead Eagles against Ajax, about ten minutes before the match, when a very beautiful woman came up to me and said: I have always wanted to talk to you,” he said.
“That was Weghorst’s mother, a charming woman. It was also her birthday. She told me a number of things about Wout.
“She said you can’t say anything about it, but she said that Weghorst said that Ajax would become champion. And she also revealed the number of goals that Wout was going to score: 20 goals.”
That would be a huge form of redemption for the striker after his Burnley to Ajax move, and stick a lot of negative comments back down the throats of critics.
