Valentijn Driessen is afraid that PSV will be deprived of outgoing top transfers this summer. Players such as Donyell Malen and Denzel Dumfries have been associated with the move to a top European league for some time, but the football chief of The Telegraph now wonders whether PSV, which has been eliminated in Europe, will be able to sell the two for tens of millions of euros after this season.
“Malen and Dumfries want to exchange PSV after this season for a challenge in a major European competition. Only they miss the international stage to increase their market value after the European elimination”, Driessen sketched a gloomy picture of the future in his column for the morning newspaper on Monday. “In fact, the lack of minutes in the Champions League, missing the last sixteen in the Europa League and missing the national title significantly depressed their market value. Nor can the two boast a resume like Steven Bergwijn or Hirving Lozano or earlier. Luuk de Jong, who left Eindhoven for top amounts “, the sports journalist refers to recent million transfers from PSV.
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Driessen thinks that managing director Toon Gerbrands will have a lot of trouble selling his ‘milk cows’ Malen and Dumfries. “Add to that the fact that crown jewel Malen does not even succeed in becoming the top scorer in the weak Dutch league”, the attacker of the Eindhoven team is accused. “Also not conducive to his market value is that for that price he will probably be trumped by Giorgios Giakoumakis, the VVV-Venlo striker, the number fifteen (!) Of the Eredivisie,”, Driessen refers to the 23 hits of the Greek striker , while Malen is currently on fourteen goals.
In Driessen’s view, PSV’s share would have fallen considerably this week, if the club were listed on the stock exchange. “Because the causes for all capital destruction are largely in the sporting field, the general policy (Gerbrands), technical policy (John de Jong) and the technical staff (Roger Schmidt) deserve a particularly thorough evaluation by the commissioners,” said the football follower. from The Telegraph. “It should not be the case that the financial future of PSV lies in the hands of Frank de Boer. That the national coach of the Dutch should offer PSV players a podium at the European Championship so that they can still be sold for top prices by Gerbrands instead of the now. imminent bottom prices “, Driessen concludes.