Willem van Hanegem believes that PSV has made little progress with the appointment of Roger Schmidt. The former international writes in his column in the General Newspaper that the bar at PSV, in contrast to Ajax, is not always set high. “I am so curious how things are going this week in Eindhoven. There are always excuses,” says Van Hanegem.
“PSV flew out of the Champions League after they were better than Benfica and were allowed to play against ten men at home for a while. They lost to Willem II, but then they simply had more opportunities? When things went rough against Go Ahead Eagles, it was suddenly a kind of Real Madrid. Against the sadly weak PEC Zwolle they only equalized six minutes before the end and then the 2-1 and 3-1. Everyone ran the polonaise again,” writes Van Hanegem. Last week PSV lost 1-2 to AS Monaco (‘they had hardly done anything wrong’) and 5-0 to Ajax.
“What really matters now is that you keep pointing out where things went wrong. Schmidt does not have to leave me, he will remain with me until he is sixty years old. But is he doing well?”, Van Hanegem wonders. He understands that Toon Gerbrands and John de Jong ‘like that Schmidt is doing great at PSV’, because they ‘have given him the key’. “But if you’re honest, they haven’t made much progress yet.”
Van Hanegem thinks that ‘man and horse’ should be mentioned within PSV. “And therefore don’t start about money and say that Ajax is so rich. I recently read the amount that Zahavi is collecting and he will not be the only one, so PSV has enough to spend,” said Van Hanegem. “PSV needs people tomorrow who want to name all that. Maybe something for Aad de Mos, because he comes there often, he says. Or for my friends, the Van de Kerkhof brothers. I’m curious.”