PSV Eindhoven: Director de Jong faces sacking for not selling Gakpo

Arnesen possible successor

A potentially momentous dispute has reportedly erupted in the Eredivisie club’s senior management over the most valuable player in the PSV Eindhoven squad. Attacker Cody Gakpo, who has been courted by numerous top European clubs in recent months, should actually have been sold at the behest of the supervisory board, but the sporting management level around technical director John de Jong acted against this instruction – as a result, the 45-year-old could now lose his job, the magazine reports “Voetbal International“. Accordingly, a successor could already be in the starting blocks with the former HSV sports director Frank Arnesen.

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On Deadline Day, the PSV supervisory board communicated the request to sell either the top scorer of the past season or, alternatively, the second-biggest pound in the squad by market value, midfielder Ibrahim Sangaré. The background is a financial deficit that the club generated last year, it is said. Coach Ruud van Nistelrooy, like the sporting management level, would have spoken out against short-term transfers because the offers available at the time did not seem appropriate in their eyes.

Gakpo, whose contract runs until 2026 and who has already contributed seven goals in the first six games this season, was last traded at Manchester United and Leeds United, among others. Sangaré, meanwhile, has been linked with Chelsea and Nottingham Forest. According to “VI”, technical director de Jong is now being used as a pawn for disregarding the instructions of the board of directors. A possible successor candidate has already been identified in Arnesen, who worked for league competitor Feyenoord until recently – the former player, assistant coach and sports director of Eindhoven also belonged to the PSV supervisory board between 2017 and 2018.

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