Sergiño Dest

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Marked for Sergiño Dest

17 Edition

The PSV Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Daouda Weidmann: 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.

Match

Whatever happens, PSV do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Guus Til

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

Player ratings

Ivan Perišić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Matěj Kovář

8 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Matěj Kovář has given nobody the chance.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Jerdy Schouten

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Sergiño Dest was immovable

13 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match

PSV and NEC cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. NEC came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

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12 Edition

The PSV Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

PSV tear De Graafschap apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against De Graafschap, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Ivan Perišić scores twice — 8.21

Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Esmir Bajraktarević, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80

A mark of 7.80 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.

Squad

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.

The terraces

PSV supporters have found a favourite in Esmir Bajraktarević

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Esmir Bajraktarević 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

Ryan Flamingo 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.

Squad

PSV lose Boet Mulders

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sergiño Dest

“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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Sergiño Dest

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

7 Edition

The PSV Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Guus Til raises the bar for PSV

“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.

Squad

Real improvement from Sami Bouhoudane at PSV

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Esmir Bajraktarević

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Match

Heerenveen take the points off PSV

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Tempers go at PSV

Armando Obispo 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at PSV

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

The plan did not have a place for Sergiño Dest

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.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Alassane Pléa

Chances created: 4. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

2 Edition

The PSV Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

PSV turn down Reading for Armando Obispo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

AZ join the queue for Ryan Flamingo

Add another name to the list: AZ have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ryan Flamingo. The answer from PSV has not changed — yet.

Market

Guus Til raises the bar for PSV

“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.

Squad

Joey Veerman signs on for more

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Sergiño Dest for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. PSV will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

In brief

  • Squad Words at PSV training over how hard people work
  • Market Still no ink between PSV and Armando Obispo
  • Boardroom PSV spend it where nobody looks