PSV missed out on an important transfer in the final phase of the winter transfer window, Earnest Stewart acknowledged in conversation with The Telegraph. The technical director explains that the club was close to bringing in a new attacker, but that the deal fell through partly because information had leaked.
The Eindhoven team would have liked to strengthen themselves with nineteen-year-old Alphadjo Cissè, but the transfer did not take place at the last minute: AC Milan presented the top talent.
“With Cissè it was a deal aimed at the future, where we were already taking into account what could possibly happen in the summer,” says Stewart.
“I’m bummed about it. But otherwise it is the way it is. You try to keep everything as quiet as possible, but sometimes that doesn’t work.”
“It’s just annoying situations when names leak or end up on the street. That bothers you. And that bothers me the most,” Stewart continues.
“When that happens, it is a logical consequence that several people are thinking about what you are thinking about. That’s just annoying.”
“I cannot look inside AC Milan. Maybe he had been in scouting there for ten years. The more internal you can keep it, the easier it becomes,” said the director of football affairs.
