Arne Slot must admit in all honesty that he did not see the meeting between Rangers FC and PSV in the play-offs for the Champions League. With that he has to disappoint Cyriel Dessers. The former Feyenoord striker, who made the switch to Rangers FC this summer and had a starting place against PSV on Tuesday evening, said after the first game in Glasgow that he hoped that Slot had looked with ‘proud’ at the Scots’ first goal .
In the Netherlands, it was mainly about the mistake Ibrahim Sangaré made in the run-up to Rangers FC’s opening goal. PSV’s Ivorian midfielder started pinging just in front of his own sixteen-meter area, allowed the ball to be stolen from him and eventually had to pay for it with 1-0. Dessers looked at it with a different look after the final whistle. “Two assists, the second was clearly better. Although I can also enjoy the first one: negative pressing, that is something that former trainer Slot pointed out to me a lot and in which I have taken steps. When I see what it brings today, I hope that I also watched the game with a little pride,” said the Belgian on Tuesday in front of the camera of RTL.
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But Slot missed the meeting between Rangers and PSV. The choice lord of Feyenoord was asked about Dessers’ texts at the press conference on Friday afternoon following the upcoming home game against Almere City, but initially had no idea what it was about. Only when the journalist explained his question did a bell ring at Slot. “I didn’t see the game to be honest,” Slot said with a smile. “I like to hear it. I think I saw it on a website that he said that. I always like it when players you’ve worked with say something about you and if they even say they learned something from you, that’s nice to hear too.”
A similar situation occurred on Friday at Feyenoord’s training field. “Walemark came to me and he had to go Self (Sebastian Szymánski) say he scored with his right leg. I always said against Self that he couldn’t do anything with the right hand at all and that he had to work much harder at that,” said Slot. Szymánski’s performance on behalf of Fenerbahçe against FC Twente made Slot realize that he would have liked to have had the Pool there. However, the arrival of Szymánski, hired by Feyenoord last season, was not realistic. “Most people forget that the salary is just not feasible for us. If in some cases we meet a transfer fee, then that high transfer fee is also equivalent to a certain salary. Those are the salaries that we do not pay at this club.”
2023-08-25 13:06:06
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