The Jong PSV Chronicle
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Seb Huntelaar, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market1 Oct 2029
Noah Fernandez is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Jong PSV is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Oct 2029
Kane Aerts 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.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Jong PSV
Borja Mayoral 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.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Words at Jong PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordy Bawuah is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Matěj Kovář
“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.
Match29 Sep 2029
Late, late show earns Jong PSV a point
Minute 89, against Roda, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Nick Olij: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Jong PSV will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Match29 Sep 2029
Honours even between Jong PSV and Roda
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- The dugout The form table has caught Nick Olij
- The dugout Joshua Kitolano asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Joshua Kitolano moves up the pecking order