Financial problems driving PSV nuts! Afellay leaving and arrival of new youth player…
By: Firezen | February 3rd, 2010
So what do you do when your club’s budget is heading towards a negative 3 million euro deficit due to lack of Champions League action, your hot in form super sub striker is dismissed for doping, and your star man refuses to sign a contract extension?
Nothing… I mean what can you do?
Fred Rutten had contemplated about bringing in a short term solution striker for quite some time after Jonathan Reis bailed out of the team, but refusal of a budget upgrade and lack of transfer/loan options in the market has meant PSV is looking towards finishing off the season without 2 strikers (Stefan Nijland on loan).
So what did PSV do? Well they signed a new kid called Marcel Ritzmaier, a 16 year old Austrian U-18 striker. I really don’t know the details on the deal but that he’s been labelled as “promising”, as with every other young striker who gets signed by anyone in the world. I hope he turns out right, and I’ll have to keep tabs on him. But for now, it would be hilarious if he was the one to fill the void, right now. We’re talking about someone who’s as young and good as Romelo Lukaku (the 16 year old real deal in Anderlecht who’s actually scoring goals for fun in top flight football). I really hope I’m proven wrong, but certainly we are still 2 strikers short.
And Afellay leaving? That’s bad news. It was bound to come one day, we all knew it due to PSV’s financial capacity and Afellay’s age. He’s 24, isn’t he? A little older and he might not have another chance of showing off to the world of being the next real deal for Oranje on a bigger stage. But PSV without Afellay… is there anyone else who can step up to the plate? Come to think of it, we did, but Aissati did leave us for Ajax by the end of the day. PSV also doesn’t have the money to buy a replacement… We’ll see, hope Reimond Manco or someone else from the youth squad fill up into Afellay’s void.
Category: PSV Team News
Tags: anderlecht, austria, Champions League, europe league, financial, fred rutten, Ibrahim Afellay, marcel rizmaier, PSV Team News, romelo lukaku, stefan nijlandSubscribe
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psv’s best players leaving is nothing new, i have been a psv fan for over 15 years now and during that time the one constant feature has always been that our best players seem to grow out of the eredivisie – not all leave for bigger/better clubs than psv but they all tend to go to higher profile competitions than the eredivisie. our failure this season has been down to the fact that we don’t have a natural goalscorer. if the board made money available at chritmas time we would have won the league comfortably, and cl qualification would be in the bag. but they chose not to make any money available and now we are paying the price. in truth koevermans has never been good enough for us, his lack of pace, movement, skill and goalscoring ability has let us down, but psv have not acted quick enough to get him out and get a real goal scorer in. for many years the psv board have lacked vision and the result has been psv ending up with sub-standard players, hopefully the new regime under tiny sanders will lead to a stronger psv on and off the pitch.
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