Tuesday, 29th October, 2013
PSV Eindhoven manager Phillip Cocu insists the club will not be coerced into raising the salary ceiling for Ola Toivonen, even if the ball of his contract renewal is in the playmaker's court.
PSV risk losing Toivonen on a free transfer next summer if they don't tie him down to an extension. The actual signing on the dotted line is being delayed causing PSV much consternation.
The Swede was linked with an exit in the summer and a deal was all-but-confirmed with Norwich City, but he refused in the end.
Toivonen has now been given the offer of an extension, and Cocu was quoted by the Algemeen Dagblad as saying: "We had a conversation with Ola and his agent.
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"The offer is now with Ola. We are committed to working together to find a solution."
The club are known to follow a salary-cap policy, something that prevented Park Ji-Sung from making his own permanent switch to PSV from parent club Queens Park Rangers.
Given that Park was unable to engineer an 'exceptional-case' scenario for himself, it is unlikely Toivonen will receive the same treatment.
"It is not for nothing that the club has a salary ceiling", Cocu added. "This is not to say that an exception can never be granted, but we cannot pursue it for something like this."
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