Nick Olij

Goalkeeper - PSV
9 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Nick Olij

14 Edition

The PSV Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

PSV through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Helmond Sport, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

10 unbeaten for PSV

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation PSV did not have in the autumn.

Market

Ivan Perišić wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at PSV hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

The terraces

PSV supporters have found a favourite in Jakob Breum

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Jakob Breum has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Nick Olij signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nick Olij and PSV agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

Jakob Breum in the eights

A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Ivan Perišić — 7.03

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 7.03, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Ruben van Bommel reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Looking ahead

The neighbours are next for PSV

Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Ajax on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The PSV Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

PSV let it slip despite Sven Mijnans

Sven Mijnans had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Utrecht were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Vintage Ivan Perišić — 8.16

At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.16, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match

8 unbeaten for PSV

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation PSV did not have in the autumn.

Match

Utrecht end the PSV run at 7

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 7 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Match

Honours even between PSV and Utrecht

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nick Olij

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nick Olij, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Sergiño Dest

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

Cody Stengs on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Cody Stengs after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Loan watch

7 clean sheets on loan for Niek Schiks

9 appearances at RKC Waalwijk and the goals have stopped going in. PSV lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

In brief