When Frank de Boer signed his former Ajax prodigy Jairo Riedewald for Crystal Palace, it looked shrewd.

The Netherlands international - just 20 years of age at the time of his arrival - cost Steve Parish a sum of £7.9m, and looked like the man who would light the touchpaper in terms of De Boer's Dutch revolution at Selhurst Park.

However, in somewhat of a nightmare for Riedewald, the man who signed him was sacked by Parish after just five games and 77 days in charge following a run of four Premier League defeats in a row without scoring - the other game was a Carabao Cup win over Ipswich.

So, that left the former Ajax man under the wing of Roy Hodgson, who unfortunately didn't fancy him at all.

The 72-year-old didn't hand Riedewald a single minute of Premier League action across the 2018/19 campaign, a strange series of decisions made even weirder by the fact that there were no documented injury problems, or any reasons at that.

However, there is clearly a talented player in there. The Dutchman won Palace's Player of the Month award for January of this year in the absence of Patrick van Aanholt - however, since the left-back recovered, Riedewald returned to the bench.

It has very much been a case of the right player at the wrong time for Palace and Riedewald.

While that is a shame, and Hodgson is entitled to pick and choose whoever he wants as manager, the finances behind this deal coupled with how often the Eagles have used the 23-year-old don't make for good reading.

Since arriving in south London, the Ajax academy product has earned £55k-a-week for the 139 weeks he has been at the club, having arrived on Monday 17th July 2017 - in total, that means he has picked up £7.65m in wages, while only making 31 appearances.

Did he really play for us?! No Palace fan has managed to name all of these obscure Eagles signings....

Add that to his transfer fee of £7.9m and Riedewald has robbed Parish of £15.55m for very little in return, although that really isn't his own fault given his lack of playing time.

In other news, this Crystal Palace man is surely one of the finest purchases by Steve Parish this decade...