Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 2:22 PM• Rian Rosendaal

Valentijn Driessen gets Tuesday afternoon in a video item from The Telegraph hard on the technical leadership of PSV. The sports chief of the morning newspaper finds it incomprehensible how the Eindhoven club treats Denzel Dumfries and Donyell Malen, who seem to be leaving PSV in the short term. Driessen has big questions about the decision not to let the duo return until July 22, so that they miss the first meeting with Galatasaray in the second qualifying round of the Champions League.

“I don’t understand that at all”, the surprised Driessen opens his analysis on the transfer troubles surrounding the PSV pair on Tuesday afternoon. “PSV would like to join Ajax and play the sub-top of Europe and the Champions League. Your two best players Denzel Dumfries and Donyell Malen, because those are your two best players because they have played in the Dutch national team, they are simply not there. Cody Gakpo also participated with the Dutch in the European Championship, he is just there. He is being trained to possibly play a role. These guys (Dumfries and Malen, ed.) should have just done that,” Driessen judges. .

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“I don’t understand PSV that they don’t just say: ‘We are here in chargeYou still have a contract and you can leave. But whatever happens, if you don’t get out in time, you’ll just play with us against Galatasaray.” If you are eliminated by Galatasaray, you will be in the Europa League again. Then the distance between Ajax and PSV will increase again”, PSV warns about the consequences of early elimination in the Champions League. If the Eindhoven players are actually not up to the Turkish top club, then a meeting with the Scottish St. Johnstone will follow in the third. preliminary round of the Europa League.

Driessen also questions the method of trainer Roger Schmidt in preparing for the new season. “I think it’s a weakness of Schmidt. He lets all players only play 45 minutes, almost no one has played 90 minutes. I don’t think anyone in official matches even. Even Ibrahim Sangaré almost made it, but he was sent to “It can be training, but you have to play against Galatasaray for ninety minutes and not just with your keeper who has played ninety minutes.”