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Not at the club I’m supporting, but nice to be back and speak a bit of Dutch once in a while as well!"

On dropping 12 players

"They don’t need to prove themselves, we know what the quality is for the players that are going to play tomorrow.

All the ones that are left behind could have played tomorrow but for the long term – so, it doesn’t tell you anything about the short term, doesn’t tell us anything about Saturday’s game – but for the long term, if you look back at our season, it has been almost every time after three or four or five weeks we gave them the break during the week when there was a League Cup or an FA Cup [game], if there was a moment for them to get some freshness back we have always done that.

"It took me a while to understand this new [Champions League] format.

But a very wise man once said to me, ‘I have never seen anything good coming from losing a football game’ so we are not going into the game tomorrow trying to lose the game, we will do everything we can to try to win it, of course.

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Because if we do get into injury problems, these players will have a bit of game rhythm then as well.

It doesn’t tell you anything about the results in the short term but definitely it helps us for the long term."

On a plan for those players

"They will be off tomorrow.

What is definitely a similarity is he wants to have the ball a lot, he doesn’t go to a low block waiting for the other team to make a mistake, he doesn’t let his goalkeeper put the ball on the six-yard line and kick it as far as he can, and he wants to bring the ball out from the back.

"I think for the PSV fans – and I have noticed this when I was here last season – they are really, really, really happy that Peter is here because he doesn’t only bring results, every game he is involved in I think is a joy to watch