Marked for Sergiño Dest
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Uneasy
Squad19 Jun 2028
The knee: Noël Beulens out for 43 days
43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Utrecht lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market19 Jun 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market19 Jun 2028
Ajax pay $4.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Utrecht asked and Feyenoord said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utrecht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Jun 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Utrecht have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words at Utrecht training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wassim Bouziane 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 dugout19 Jun 2028
Noah Ohio 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 Noah Ohio is on it.
Market19 Jun 2028
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Utrecht, another week without a signature from Oualid Agougil.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad15 May 2028
32 days out for Mauro Júnior after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. PSV will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom15 May 2028
PSV book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
Squad15 May 2028
Words exchanged at PSV
Kiliann Sildillia 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 dugout15 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergiño Dest, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 May 2028
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 Jerdy Schouten is on it.
Squad15 May 2028
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and PSV will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Squad15 May 2028
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at PSV would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Loan watch15 May 2028
Sami Ouaissa would rather not come back
“For the first time in years I am picked because somebody wants me in the team.” Vitesse suits him; the awkward conversation belongs to PSV, and the summer will force it.
Loan watch15 May 2028
16 appearances at Arminia Bielefeld and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Market20 Mar 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what PSV can pretend not to have heard.
Match18 Mar 2028
No mercy from PSV
Sparta Rotterdam will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. PSV were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match14 Mar 2028
PSV come up short in Europe
0‑1 away to the standard of Ajax. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Squad20 Mar 2028
The match ball belongs to Francisco Trincão, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Francisco Trincão
12 goals and a season average of 7.63 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Both jobs done by Ivan Perišić — 7.09
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, 7.09, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
The team sheet said everything about Guus Til
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Guus Til.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Sergiño Dest 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Bas Bergwijn 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.
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Steady
Match11 Mar 2028
A derby to forget for PSV
Beaten 0‑4 by Ajax in the one fixture where losing is not allowed. The football was bad enough; the week ahead will be worse.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad13 Mar 2028
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 dugout13 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ryan Flamingo, and the manager let it.
Market13 Mar 2028
PSV and Paul Wanner are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Boardroom13 Mar 2028
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.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
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 0‑4 defeat, delivered by Daley Stengs to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
A promise honoured for Dennis Man
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. PSV told Dennis Man something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Nov 2027
The knee: Ivan Perišić out for 37 days
37 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.
Market15 Nov 2027
“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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Sergiño Dest: 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A falling-out at PSV
Francisco Trincão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“I watch every PSV game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Roda runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Francisco Trincão 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.
Market15 Nov 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Dennis Man 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 Dennis Man trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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Upbeat
Match16 Oct 2027
No mercy from PSV
Zwolle will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. PSV were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Armando Obispo: 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at PSV
Francisco Trincão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
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 ratings18 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Francisco Trincão at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PSV.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Jacobo Ramón was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. 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.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Roda to sit and watch. I want to come back to PSV and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergiño Dest, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2027
6‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match28 Sep 2027
PSV come up short in Europe
2‑3 away to the standard of Slavia Prague. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Squad4 Oct 2027
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PSV may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A falling-out at PSV
Marvin Schwäbe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2027
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about PSV and Fortuna Sittard in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Perišić commits to PSV for another 2 years.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
A performance of 9.63 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dennis Man, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market26 Jul 2027
Business is business: Nick Olij goes
AZ paid $3.2M and PSV took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Perišić 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at PSV
Mao Hosoya 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 dugout26 Jul 2027
Ryan Flamingo 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 Ryan Flamingo is on it.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at PSV, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Sergiño Dest has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sergiño Dest has written the date down.
Market26 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. PSV know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A wage question at PSV
Yarek Gąsiorowski has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
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Squad
Adamo Nagalo still has not settled
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Guus Til
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Boardroom
The board put their hand in their pocket
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Loan watch24 May 2027
25 goals in 34 games at Almere City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at PSV updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad24 May 2027
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.
Squad24 May 2027
A row about effort at PSV
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Perišić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 May 2027
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 dugout24 May 2027
Sergiño Dest knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at PSV, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Yarek Gąsiorowski keeps appearing in other people's back pages. PSV say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad24 May 2027
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and PSV have no good answer.
Market24 May 2027
Told you so: Rasmus Højlund arrives at last
14 appearances in, the average sits at 6.74, and the people who defended him through the autumn are enjoying themselves enormously. Adaptation is a story football only tells backwards.
Market24 May 2027
Nick Olij placed on the list
PSV have made Nick Olij available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Match17 Apr 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Go Ahead Eagles, and it could have been more.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Both of them Mao Hosoya's — 8.64
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Ivan Perišić yet — 8.18
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
20 shut-outs in 34 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Niek Schiks has been having a lot of them.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
26 appearances away from home and 13 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Looking ahead19 Apr 2027
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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
24 appearances away from home and 12 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
A promise honoured at PSV
Something was said to Rasmus Højlund and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Upbeat
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, PSV do not lose
18 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.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
25 appearances away from home and 22 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Match6 Mar 2027
The run at home goes on for PSV
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Perišić commits to PSV for another 2 years.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
18 clean sheets on loan for Niek Schiks
29 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Rivas Manuhutu has agreed terms with Sparta Rotterdam for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at PSV
Rasmus Højlund 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at PSV
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mao Hosoya was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Nobody wants to play PSV right now
5 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.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
25 appearances away from home and 22 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
19 goals in 21 games at Almere City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at PSV updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market8 Feb 2027
Dennis Man 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at PSV
Marvin Schwäbe 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sergiño Dest and PSV agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Perišić 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.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
15 shut-outs in 25 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Niek Schiks has been having a lot of them.
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Upbeat
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.24 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match28 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mauro Júnior. 3‑1 against Heerenveen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Kodai Sano 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
13 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Sergiño Dest 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 Sergiño Dest trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Guus Til could have had three
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Upbeat
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ivan Perišić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to PSV.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
12 appearances at RKC Waalwijk and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I watch every PSV game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zwolle runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Sergiño Dest knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at PSV, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
When it matters, Kodai Sano plays
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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
12 appearances at Helmond Sport and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Willem II to sit and watch. I want to come back to PSV and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Paul Wanner 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sparta Rotterdam in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yarek Gąsiorowski’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at PSV
Kodai Sano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Player of the week: Guus Til
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sergiño Dest 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 Sergiño Dest trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
7 appearances at Helmond Sport and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Niek Schiks’s loan is measured in nothing happening
4 clean sheets from 7 appearances at RKC Waalwijk. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
3 goals on loan for Tygo Land
7 appearances at Groningen and the goals keep coming. PSV are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Matěj Kovář story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Matěj Kovář signs something — a contract at PSV or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
PSV asked and Go Ahead Eagles said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Willem II to sit and watch. I want to come back to PSV and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Guus Til leaves them behind him
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Match19 Sep 2026
PSV and AZ cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. AZ came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against NAC Breda in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.