PSV coach Van Nistelrooy bites off | Football

Van Nistelrooy also sees many good things and thinks that too much emphasis is placed on the defeats against Rangers FC and FC Twente. ,,We have played eleven games and lost two, against Rangers and FC Twente. We’ve had Monaco twice, Rangers out, the Super Cup duel with Ajax. I see it in its entirety. I don’t just watch two games. In which you are working with a new team and new guys, who still have to be fitted in. If you see from the starting point then I am satisfied with the development of the team. If you take the defeat against Arminia Bielefeld (4-0 in pre-season, ed.) as a reference, then we have made giant strides. You can’t portray the season as a disaster so far. I am calm and confident in the process.”

Van Nistelrooy also made a striking statement about the championship aspirations. Director of football affairs John de Jong stated in the summer that PSV must become champion and must get over Ajax. Van Nistelrooy takes a more nuanced look at this. ,,I never said that we should be champions. That’s not what I’m saying. The ambition at PSV is to compete to become champions and to win the cup and to represent ourselves well in Europe. I’m not saying we should be champions.”