PC interview: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=BiuazH6K CeU

Translated into English (from 01:45 mins)

How does it feel to resuscitate a patient who is almost completely dead like that?

Good. That is also the intention when you start this job.
And I know that many people called me a bit crazy when the news came out.
But I had the feeling that a lot of things could change here in the short term and certainly also in the long term to make this club better again.
And I had a very good feeling after the first talks with the people here.
I have to be honest that when I went into the first meeting, I had absolutely no intention of coming here.
I told my wife: I’ll have that conversation, but we’re never going over there.


But it’s not the dream destination you map out beforehand.

No, I didn’t have a dream destination or anything.
But okay, the Championship was not the ambition.
I had more the top five leagues in mind.
I was also talking to a club from those top five leagues.
But the people convinced me because of their honesty in that conversation.
Usually you have a conversation where everyone really tries to sell their club.
And now it was really the opposite and they said what all the problems in the club were and asked: how would you solve that?
I’ve always been someone who follows his gut feeling.
People have called me crazy before.
I remember when I became head coach at Waasland-Beveren that no one in the football world said it was a good decision and that it was a graveyard for coaches there and so on.
And it turned out to be a very good decision to do that.
And I’m very happy that I had that period.
And I have the same feeling with this.
And you can already see that a lot of people have changed their minds.


You just said, I was mainly looking at the top five leagues to get a job.

In the end it became Norwich.
But this can also be a path to a top five league.
That is the intention with this project for everyone.
We know that it will not be for this year, normally not, unless things keep going unbelievably well.
And as long as people are dreaming, well, I know.
I know, supporters are getting a bit crazy already.
They quickly forget how it was two months ago.
But it’s good that you are allowed to dream about things.
It’s important for me to keep the players’ feet on the ground.
But anything is possible.
But the owners do not expect us to get promoted straight away this year.
And let’s keep building now that we’ve started.

Posted By: footymadman on February 2nd 2026 at 02:50:10

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