Marked for Jerdy Schouten
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match28 Nov 2026
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A brace, and Ruben van Bommel takes the afternoon — 9.79
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ruben van Bommel provided it, and the 9.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Jerdy Schouten 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.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ruben van Bommel 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at PSV can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market30 Nov 2026
No place for Sergiño Dest in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sergiño Dest has his answer from PSV; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Jerdy Schouten was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.07. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Dennis Man at his very best
Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PSV.
Back issues
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Upbeat
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Calvin Bassey: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” PSV have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at PSV heard it as anything else.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at PSV
Jerdy Schouten and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every PSV game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ararat-Armenia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ruben van Bommel has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at PSV will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Guus Til story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guus Til signs something — a contract at PSV or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Willem II in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Armando Obispo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Mikkel Bro Hansen’s exile
4 goals in 9 games at Debrecen — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at PSV updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Upbeat
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Ruben van Bommel takes the afternoon — 8.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ruben van Bommel provided it, and the 8.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market9 Nov 2026
Jerdy Schouten 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Ivan Perišić 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ruben van Bommel commits to PSV for another 5 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A quiet fortnight at PSV
With 7 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Mauro Júnior beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match7 Nov 2026
Late, late show earns PSV a point
Minute 93, against Ajax, 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
It needed Ruben van Bommel to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Ajax, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Donny Aké on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Upbeat
Match31 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Ruben van Bommel took the headlines on an afternoon when everything PSV tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A defender's goal wins it for PSV — 7.83
1 for Jerdy Schouten, marked 7.83, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.06 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Derby week at PSV
Ajax next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Ringo Meerveld 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Paul Wanner gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
The knee: Boet Mulders out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. PSV lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at PSV
Jerdy Schouten and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dennis Man. 2‑1 against Utrecht, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ruben van Bommel 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Guus Til was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad19 Oct 2026
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every PSV game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ararat-Armenia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Donny Aké, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ruben van Bommel is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at PSV
Jerdy Schouten 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
PSV are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seb Huntelaar 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Utrecht next, and one man in the PSV dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kiliann Sildillia signs something — a contract at PSV or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Alassane Pléa a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at PSV. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match4 Oct 2026
1‑2, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Calvin Bassey
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. PSV will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at PSV
Calvin Bassey 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; PSV are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Mauro Júnior at his very best
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PSV.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Donny Aké to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Ivan Perišić 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 Ivan Perišić is on it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Jerdy Schouten
Nobody at PSV is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.70 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PSV this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jerayno Hunte is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for PSV, 2‑0 the final word against ADO Den Haag in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Guus Til at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PSV.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Mauro Júnior was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes PSV will be judged on one thing only.
Market28 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Armando Obispo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at PSV.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Donny Aké kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ivan Perišić in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PSV this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Dennis Man beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every PSV game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ararat-Armenia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Armando Obispo
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Donny Aké: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Seb Huntelaar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Guus Til story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guus Til signs something — a contract at PSV or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Match20 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for PSV?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Heerenveen? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
ADO Den Haag next, and one man in the PSV dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Triumph
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at PSV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
Dennis Man wants more than PSV are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match12 Sep 2026
PSV get the job done against Vitesse
A 3‑2 win over Vitesse, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 22 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Guus Til
Marked 8.43 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ruben van Bommel was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at PSV
Ringo Meerveld 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Donny Aké kept it short after the 3‑2 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at PSV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what Astra would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 2 in, 8 out at PSV
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 8 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at PSV heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Jerdy Schouten 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sami Bouhoudane is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
PSV are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nick Olij named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nick Olij is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Astra, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
PSV asked and Shakhtar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at PSV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Jordy Bawuah has left for ADO Den Haag in a $3.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PSV this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
PSV come up short against AZ
AZ left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 PSV players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 5 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
PSV win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Cambuur will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around PSV people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
PSV asked and Young Boys said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at PSV
Jerdy Schouten and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ivan Perišić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for PSV, 1‑0 the final word against Cambuur in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market24 Aug 2026
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Ricardo Pepi moves on to Middlesbrough with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
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Triumph
Market17 Aug 2026
PSV pay Fulham $47.4M for a proper upgrade
Fulham did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $47.4M for Calvin Bassey, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Ringo Meerveld joins from Heerenveen in a deal worth $7.3M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Calvin Bassey arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Calvin Bassey has, at PSV, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.80 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Heerenveen have kept their man, and PSV go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
PSV say no — this time
The offer from Rotherham United for Mikkel Bro Hansen was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at PSV
Jerdy Schouten 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ivan Perišić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
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The terraces
PSV spend $47.4M on the signing the town wanted
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The terraces
The crowd has taken to Sami Bouhoudane
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Match
PSV get the job done against Excelsior
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
PSV have gone to Fulham with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$28.3M was the most the club would pay and RB Leipzig were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Southampton come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and PSV did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. PSV have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$7.3M on the table at Heerenveen. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
PSV asked and NEC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at PSV heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jerdy Schouten and PSV agree another 5 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $8.1M — a club that wants Ringo Meerveld enough to be asked twice.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$20.6M on the table at RB Leipzig. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at PSV heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ivan Perišić calls time on his country
“158 caps was 158 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 37 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from PSV.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Perišić commits to PSV for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Jerdy Schouten 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Liam van Nistelrooij falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Jerdy Schouten asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.