Ruud van Nistelrooy has launched an attack on the PSV board following the sales of Noni Madueke and Cody Gakpo in January. The former Manchester United striker faces an increasingly uncertain future at Dutch side following a string of below-par results.
He has been under scrutiny in the dugout with PSV eight points adrift of Feyenoord, who sit top of the Eredivisie. Despite seven games unbeaten, the Dutch outfit have also recently been knocked out of Europa League by Sevilla.
In an interview with Eindhovens Dagblad, Van Nistelrooy was asked to explain why PSV are not challenging for the league title this term. He responded by blaming the decision-makers at the club for sanctioning the exits of Madueke and Gakpo, who demanded a combined £64million.
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"I said that the ambitions remain, because we play for PSV," the 46-year-old said. "But you also know that if your best players leave, you're less likely to become champion. I certainly build in that reality. You can't hide the unrest within the club either. With the supervisory board, the technical director leaving and from September to March you have no one there.
"You can already notice the difference that Earnie Stewart is there. That just gives a lot of support and peace of mind. There is also a lot more work that can be done. I'm quite pragmatic and take things as they come, but I do care about what I'm doing. I want to give the team a lot of compliments.
"If it is not quiet within a club, it always seeps through and we have to deal with that. The boys and the staff do that with all their might and the staff does that too."
Van Nistelrooy added: "I talked about the reality where you are as a club and if you don't include and if you don't include the sales that had to be made in this season, you are not living in reality. It is very clever of this group how we deal with that and I also mention my staff.
"Of course you judge PSV as this is PSV and now it has to happen, but in the year that it has to happen you don't sell your best players in the winter and another five don't go away. Then there are injuries and suspensions.
"As a team and players you have to be firmly in your shoes. Where we are at the moment is what the maximum achievable has been so far. We just keep going and know in what circumstances we had to work. But we couldn't have been where we are now. I think that the policy choices that have been made have such an impact that this is the maximum."
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