Marked for Benjamin Khaderi
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market22 Jan 2029
Málaga come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jong PSV did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market22 Jan 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolas Verkooijen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jong PSV the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match20 Jan 2029
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market22 Jan 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match20 Jan 2029
Nobody wants to play Jong PSV right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Armando Obispo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad22 Jan 2029
A row about effort at Jong PSV
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jordy Bawuah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings22 Jan 2029
Nobody could get near Sol Sidibé
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Jan 2029
A 1‑0 win over Cambuur, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Back issues
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Steady
Market23 Oct 2028
Fabio Kluit hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Jong PSV can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
Fabian Merién, 20, steals the show — 7.79
Marked 7.79 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market23 Oct 2028
Only the photograph left for Noah Fernandez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Noah Fernandez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jong PSV the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Jong PSV
Nicolas Verkooijen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces23 Oct 2028
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad23 Oct 2028
A row about effort at Jong PSV
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaden de Guzmán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match21 Oct 2028
A 1‑1 draw with Helmond Sport leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Jong PSV have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
Market23 Oct 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Benjamin Khaderi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Jong PSV.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Aug 2028
Fabio Kluit hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Jong PSV can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Aug 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Jong PSV people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market28 Aug 2028
The deal that would have taken Wessel Kuhn to Emmen has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Jong PSV with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad28 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Jong PSV
Armando Obispo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Aug 2028
A row about effort at Jong PSV
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jordy Bawuah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market28 Aug 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Jong PSV have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Sam Lammers
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Aug 2028
Cambuur left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.