Marked for Joey Veerman
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Joey Veerman out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PSV will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Dec 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Ricardo Pepi scored in the 86th minute, Cambuur had already begun thinking about the journey home, and PSV took the lot.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The match ball belongs to Ricardo Pepi, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match21 Dec 2026
PSV refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 39 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Paul Wanner at 21 — 7.77
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Paul Wanner did not need any: 7.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around PSV they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match19 Dec 2026
Cambuur made PSV work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
18 appearances at Cambuur and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
In brief
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Squad
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
One of those days for Ricardo Pepi
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Squad
Defences have started doubling up on Ricardo Pepi
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Joey Veerman breaks a bone — 56 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Dec 2026
Alexis Vega had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Excelsior were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Guus Til
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Alexis Vega 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Nobody wins at PSV
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match12 Dec 2026
Honours even between PSV and Excelsior
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Ivan Perišić 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.
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Triumph
Squad7 Dec 2026
Joey Veerman breaks a bone — 65 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Dec 2026
Alexis Vega wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Alexis Vega found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Twente went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and PSV know it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Alexis Vega 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
16 appearances at Cambuur and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Alexis Vega’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to PSV.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Flamingo 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
$7.4M on the table at PSV
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
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Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Joey Veerman out for 75 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PSV will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Matěj Kovář: 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Ivan Perišić yet — 8.13
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.13 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match28 Nov 2026
Zwolle made PSV work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match28 Nov 2026
8 goals as PSV and Zwolle go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between PSV and Zwolle, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Alexis Vega 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Alassane Pléa 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.
In brief
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Match
PSV make home a hard place to visit
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Player ratings
Guus Til runs at them all day
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Loan watch
14 goals on loan for Ruben van Bommel
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
Joey Veerman breaks a bone — 83 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match23 Nov 2026
PSV up to position 3
29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Esmir Bajraktarević, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market23 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around PSV they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
PSV come up short against NEC
NEC left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match21 Nov 2026
7 goals in one match, Liam van Nistelrooij on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of PSV and NEC.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for PSV
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
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Triumph
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Joey Veerman out for 93 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PSV will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Dennis Man, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match11 Nov 2026
PSV march on in the cup
Excelsior are out and PSV go through, 7‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Sami Bouhoudane at 18 — 8.83
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sami Bouhoudane did not need any: 8.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Alassane Pléa yet — 7.98
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Nov 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.
Match11 Nov 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about PSV and Excelsior in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Guus Til 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Guus Til runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
9 unbeaten for PSV
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation PSV did not have in the autumn.
Market2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Alexis Vega 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Alexis Vega 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Honours even between PSV and Willem II
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mauro Júnior is still paying for one afternoon at PSV
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Joey Veerman named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Joey Veerman is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ricardo Pepi 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.
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Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Sami Bouhoudane at 18 — 7.78
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sami Bouhoudane did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Alexis Vega 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten PSV
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sami Bouhoudane. 1‑0 against Groningen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
7.80, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. PSV had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad12 Oct 2026
PSV pick somebody else ahead of Matěj Kovář
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
PSV say no — this time
The offer from AZ for Ryan Flamingo 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.
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.” Joey Veerman and PSV agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Guus Til 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. PSV have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joey Veerman 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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Al-Ittihad 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Ricardo Pepi 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.
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. PSV have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 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.