“Ajax becomes champion on a shoe and an old football shoe”. The song sounds hesitant and with the necessary reluctance at the start of the Willy and René Podcast from Omroep Brabant. Despite their chagrijn, OER-PSV’ers Willy and René van de Kerkhof have no trouble admitting that Ajax has completely earned the crucial topper “a man or six will just go away or had already wanted to go away and throw the cap at it”, Willy notes.
“And so there is no team and at Ajax is and that is why they are earned champion,” Willy continues. “Being second, is going to be another task,” he thinks too.
With the ‘man of 6’, Willy is referring to Noa Lang, Olivier Boscagli and Joey Veerman. René can do little understanding for these players. “If you want to leave then you just want to play yourself in the spotlight? If I had been in the stands for Noa Lang as a representative of an Italian club, I would have grabbed a pen and crossed his name. In Italy he really doesn’t get to work, you will be kicked left and right around your ears!”
René also annoyed Tyrell Malacia again: “I really don’t understand that Bosz brought him in the lines. He can’t even sit on the couch at Eindhoven!”
“If I was Ivan Perišic then I would leave.”
Despite the dramatic series since the winter break, trainer Peter Bosz is currently getting the benefit of the brothers’ doubt. “Maybe his successor was in the stands on Sunday, because Erik ten Hag was there,” says René. “But I would not fire Bosz unless he doesn’t get a second either, because then he will go out.” Willy now does not like a trainer change: “A new trainer has to do it with, among other things, those six players, so that makes no sense.”
Technical director Earnest Stewart is also retaining the trust of the brothers for the time being. “But he has to wonder if he has done a good job. There are, among other things, far too many players with an expiring contract now.” One of those players is Ivan Perišic who would like to see Willy stay at PSV. “I am really curious what he is going to do. I would not tell him that he has to leave, because I am far too much PSV for that. But if that was not the case, I would recommend him to see if there is another club where he can go.”
“Second place is still difficult.”
Both brothers fear that it will be quite a challenge for PSV to become second. Although they keep it that it should work. And if that does indeed succeed, PSV will have a very successful full year because of the merits in Europe and the not having to pay off championships. “Then the treasurer is cheering in the polonaise,” says Willy. “Even if he would have paid those championships with love ..”
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