Ritsu Doan returns to the Netherlands this weekend after participating in the Olympic Games in his home country. The attacker will most likely not be part of PSV’s match selection for the away game against Heracles Almelo and it is also questionable whether he will make minutes for Roger Schmidt’s team this season.
Doan will look at what his role at PSV can still be in the coming period, it writes Eindhovens Dagblad Friday. After all, the 23-year-old Japanese was loaned out to Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga last season and he missed the complete preparation for this football season due to his presence in Tokyo. PSV is making an extremely good impression in this for the time being, with four victories in the double Champions League duels with Galatasaray (5-1 and 1-2) and FC Midtjylland (3-0 and 0-1), and a resounding 0-4 victory. on Ajax in the battle for the Johan Cruijff Scale.
Journalist Rik Elfrink estimates that Doan does not seem to qualify for a basic place at the moment and will therefore want to weigh up his chances, especially after the conversation with Schmidt. Some Bundesliga clubs are interested in the Japanese, who missed a bronze medal at the Olympics. Doan was good for 35 games in all competitions last season in the uniform of Arminia Bielefeld, which was retained for the Bundesliga. The attacker scored five times and prepared two other hits.
PSV and FC Groningen made no announcements about a transfer fee in the summer of 2019, but Doan reportedly made the switch to Eindhoven for an amount of 7.5 million euros and signed a contract until the summer of 2024. , who transferred 2.5 million euros to Gamba Osaka, Doan came to 66 official duels, 16 hits and 7 assists.
Doan was attracted by PSV after the departure of Hirving Lozano to Napoli, but he did not become a regular base player in Eindhoven. He scored only two goals in nineteen Eredivisie matches.