The PSV Chronicle
Squad29 May 2028
Sami Bouhoudane damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad29 May 2028
A falling-out at PSV
Barış Alper Yılmaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market29 May 2028
One of our own: Nathan Clasie joins the PSV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nathan Clasie is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market29 May 2028
PSV promote Teun Frimpong from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Teun Frimpong has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market29 May 2028
Tim Hateboer steps up from the PSV academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Hateboer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market29 May 2028
One of our own: Owen Wijnaldum joins the PSV first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Owen Wijnaldum is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad29 May 2028
6 new faces, and PSV are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout29 May 2028
Guus Til gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Guus Til is on it.
The dugout29 May 2028
Isaac Babadi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Isaac Babadi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Joshua Kitolano
- Squad Alassane Pléa still has not settled
- The dugout Oussama Targhalline has been promised minutes