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PSV players fed up with Stevens' tactics
Tuesday 27 January 2009
(VI)
- The position of PSV coach Huub Stevens is under pressure.
Talks with several players of the
club revealed that confidence in the football teacher
from Limburg has sunk to a minimum.
The PSV players have great difficulties
with the emotional outbursts of Stevens on the touch
line, but more serious is the discontent about the tactical
choices Stevens makes.
His refusal to - in spite of the
players' disagreement - to play with two men up front
is causing a lot of friction.
The players reproach their coach
with a lack of courage and they unanimously feel that
Stevens is not getting the most from the available players.
Stevens' choice to bench Danko
Lazovic, Danny Koevermans and Nordin Amrabat against
NAC and to start new signing Ola Toivonen caused many
a frown within the squad.
The wish to play in a more offensive
style has been expressed a few
months ago, but the players feel Stevens did very
little with it.
The tension within the squad culminated
last Saturday at half-time in the dressing room when
a bust up between keepers trainer Hans Segers and Hungarian
midfielder Balázs Dzsudzsák could barely
be prevented.
Even worse for Stevens is that
players are getting support from unexpected places.
According to sources within the
squad General Director Jan Reker has revealed to them
that he too does not agree with the cautious tactics.
That used to be called 'stabbed
in the back'.
All signals are indicating that
Stevens' positions is getting ever more unsettled.
"When we send away our coach
will it go better?" Reker wonders.
"For the time being I do not
wish to consider that scenario. We'll stick with Huub
for a while."
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