From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $2.7M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Heerenveen drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
NEC pay $890.0K, 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Esmir Bajraktarević’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to PSV.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Guus Til 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.62 — 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Dennis Man hands in a written request
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
PSV say no — this time
The offer from Willem II for Armando Obispo 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jerdy Schouten commits to PSV for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Joey Veerman 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Seb Huntelaar has come up in conversations PSV were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jerdy Schouten 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 Jerdy Schouten trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
PSV say no — this time
The offer from Ajax for Guus Til 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.
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
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.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The Nick Olij question follows PSV around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nick Olij’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.