Peter Bosz did not think about it for a second to leave PSV. Despite the defeat against Ajax and with that the lost title fight, the trainer does not feel that the situation has become unworkable. “As a football player, I was a fighter who never gave up and so I am as a person and trainer. I see it a huge challenge to turn it around with PSV. It would be cowardly to abandon things.”
Bosz does not feel much pressure from the outside world or internal to step up. “It is not that we deal with pistols on our chest here. I only feel the pressure we impose ourselves. Last year my easiest season was as a trainer, everyone was cheerful because of all the victories. This job is more difficult, but I see it as a nice challenge to turn it around and to be second. I am convinced that it will work out.”
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The next seven games in the Eredivisie, Bosz will not do anything else with his team. “Just when things are not going well, players need guidance,” he says. “It is much more powerful to stick to that. If you draw up a completely different team and do crazy things, then that is not the long -term solution. Not in the short term either, because I believe in clarity.”
“We should not get stuck in negativity and self -pity.”
For Bosz currently only has the game against FC Groningen on Saturday evening. “We realize that we have left the chance of the title. It is logical that you now look up the ranking rather than up. We just don’t have to get stuck in negativity and self -pity, but the focus goes to Groningen.”
He sees the right passion again within the players’ group. “A day after the match against Ajax, the players came here under the zero point. The blow was very big, understandable. I left them a bit alone on the first day and then they had a day off. But from Wednesday I didn’t want to see disappointment anymore. It is going in the right direction.”