Wesley Sneijder thinks PSV is seriously interested in Luca Waldschmidt. On Wednesday morning, the Portuguese Corn Futebol that PSV has its sights on the attacker of Benfica, who is not assured of a permanent place in the team of Jorge Jesus. PSV would like to make contact about the possible arrival of Waldschmidt around the game against Benfica on Wednesday evening.
Before the game, PSV coach Roger Schmidt is asked about the striking rumor. He would not confirm or deny the interest. “We are interested in good players. At the moment Benfica has 35 to 38 players, who are all good. We are always interested in many good players, but at the moment I am focused on my players tonight, my starting players and reserve players.” Schmidt is not sure whether an offer has been made. “I don’t want to talk about any new players before this game.”
Sneijder is present in the studio of RTL7 as an analyst around the match between Benfica and PSV in the last preliminary round of the Champions League. He draws his own conclusions from Schmidt’s answer. “Judging by his answer, there has been an offer, right? Otherwise he will disprove it. Then he will say ‘no'”, suspects Sneijder. “We know that PSV wants to attract a striker. Maybe they wanted to be a bit annoying towards Benfica and that’s the reason he doesn’t play, I don’t know.” Sneijder does not rule out the possibility that PSV wanted to be ‘just as annoying’ towards Benfica just before the game.
Waldschmidt, 25, comes from Germany and was acquired from SC Freiburg for fifteen million euros last year. He is also in the interest of VfL Wolfsburg. Waldschmidt stayed on the bench for 90 minutes in the two games against Spartak Moscow in the third Champions League preliminary round, but did have a starting spot and scored in the first two league games against Moreirense (1-2 win) and Arouca (2-0 win). .
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