Peter Bosz confirms: PSV’s multi-million signing drops down the pecking order

PSV coach Peter Bosz is giving Ivan Perisic a rest on Friday evening against sc Heerenveen and has chosen not to replace the Croat with Dennis Man, but with Esmir Bajraktarevic. Bosz confirms to the cameras of ESPN that the Bosnian is now above the Romanian in the pecking order.

"Because I thought he had done very well before the international break," Bosz replies when asked why Bajraktarevic is preferred on the right wing.

"He had to replace Ivan there once before, at the moment Dennis was injured, and he did that very well. Then I also think I have to reward that," says Bosz, who then confirms that Man has dropped down the pecking order.

Man was better last season than he has been this season, says ESPN reporter Milan van Dongen. "That also has to do with the fact that I started playing with Ivan from that side, he was also injured for a while...", Bosz replies.

"But Dennis really is a very good player. He will definitely come back and he will still get plenty of minutes," the coach concludes.

Analyst Kenneth Perez also believes the currently injured Paul Wanner has lost his starting place, and that has everything to do with the rapid development of Noah Fernández. "He is a fine player," Perez says of the talented Belgian (18).

"It comes with ups and downs. One time he plays really very well, the next time he lets his man go, loses possession and all those things. But of course it is a sign that he is preferred to Wanner."

"They paid fifteen million for him, he (Fernández, ed.) was already preferred when Wanner was not injured either. Still a player who came over from Bayern, in whom they had confidence," Perez said.