PSV

Where they stand

• Four matches played, ten points: a 2-2 home draw with Fortuna Sittard, a 2-1 win at Excelsior, a 5-1 home win over FC Groningen, and a 6-1 win away at FC Utrecht on 30 August. The Box-Entry Reading v9 Carried Is Corrected Here Rather Than Repeated. The four readings are Sixteen, Sixteen, Nineteen, Then Fifteen. Sixteen was the floor three opponents had failed to push PSV below, and the fourth match went one below it, so the Floor Is Broken while the Repetition Survives: four readings inside a 15-19 band, against four materially different opponents, home and away, remains the most repeated quantity this club owns — but it is a band and not a floor, and no minimum is asserted. The Margin Is Again The Least Informative Part. PSV scored SIX from 2.37 non-penalty expected goals and missed a penalty in the same match, so the scoreline outruns the underlying figure by more than three goals; this is the second consecutive match in which that is true and it is NOT read as evidence of finishing quality in either direction. The Other Volumes Rose Materially: 30 shots against 21, 20 and 24; 14 on target; 13 corners; five big chances. They Were Produced Against A Side That Attempted One Shot, which is a circumstance that has to travel with every one of them. PSV Also Conceded First For A Third Time In Four Matches, at six minutes, and led within five.

League record

• 4 matches played · 10 points · 15 scored, 5 conceded.Moderate confidence

Summer squad changes

7 in, 4 out. Where a move is reported rather than confirmed, or a player is not yet eligible to play, that is stated.

The coach

• Peter Bosz has been PSV's head coach since summer 2023, extended by two years through mid-2028 in February 2026 — an unbroken, strengthening tenure: his coaching staff (Rob Maas, Terry Peters, Kevin Begois) was retained through the extension and further reinforced by the addition of Bas Sibum as assistant coach in June 2026.
• Genuinely high continuity, now running to at least five seasons under one coach by contract. This matters directly for how this summer's squad changes should be read: PSV's identity is coach-resident rather than tied to any individual player, which is the strongest argument that departures like Ismael Saibari's are personnel changes within a stable system, not identity changes.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence

Pre-season

None of these seven fixtures — six friendlies of varying formats plus the Johan Cruijff Schaal, a competitive match played 81 of ~95 minutes with ten men — is used as evidence of 2026/27 Eredivisie league form. They are used only as evidence of current personnel, fitness, selection signals and squad-rotation method, per the season-opening evidence-weight rule this card already established for itself.

• Ivan Perišić, Paul Wanner, Ricardo Pepi and Sergiño Dest appear in none of the five reported friendly line-ups (Antwerp through FC Eindhoven) and were absent from the 30-man Klosterpforte training-camp list (20-24 July) — first attributed, for Dest alone, to World Cup involvement by a single approved-editorial source; head coach Bosz stated on 31 July it would be "too soon" for the World Cup returnees to start, with a bench role to be examined.Moderate confidence

How they play

• No Preferred Structure Is Asserted For PSV, And This Field Exists To Say So Rather Than To Leave The Question Silent. Until this version the card carried no preferred-structure field at all, which reads as an absence of interest rather than as the refusal it actually is. The Refusal Is Evidenced And Specific. For Matchweek 2 two sources describe The Identical Eleven in incompatible terms: Psv's Own pre-kickoff graphic renders it as a 4-2-3-1 — a Veerman/Wanner double pivot, a band of three, Pepi alone — while the provider's post-match computation and positional grid give a 4-3-3, a back four with a midfield three and a front three. Neither Is Selected. A club graphic is a statement of intent published before the match; a positional grid is a computation over where players were recorded; they are different instruments and disagreeing does not make either wrong. THE 2025/26 Question Is Also Still Open and is tracked separately as a hypothesis: whether PSV played a single deep pivot behind two eights or a two-man block is contested between accounts. What Follows From A Label Is Nothing: no pressing scheme, rest-defence behaviour, build-up methodology, block height or midfield hierarchy is inferred from either rendering, and one of the two elevens described contained a player who has since left the club.Our reading of the evidence · Limited confidence
• The Historical Profile And The Competitive Observations Are Both Carried, And They Are Held Apart Because They Measure Different Things. The Historical Profile Is Unchanged: sustained possession dominance, 64.2 per cent average and 1,608 successful passes across a three-match April 2026 sample on Eredivisie C.V.'s own metrics, underpinning a scoring floor rather than a single hot streak. What 2026/27 Has Added Is Two Data Points And A Range Rather Than A Level: 76 Per Cent of the ball at home to Fortuna Sittard, then 59 Per Cent away at Excelsior. The Spread Is The Point And It Is Not Averaged — those two figures sit either side of the historical mean, one match was home and one away, and the opponents differ materially. No Change To Psv's Build-Up Method Is Established By Either, and none is claimed: possession share is a territorial outcome, not a description of how the first phase is constructed, and Nothing In Either Capture Measures Build-Up As A Mechanism — no progression-type breakdown, no goalkeeper-involvement measure, no line-breaking-pass count exists in the evidence this card holds. The historical figure remains the only mechanism-adjacent evidence, and it is a previous-season figure.Moderate confidence
• A genuinely two-sided defensive record: PSV conceded 45 goals in 2025/26 — a total only two Dutch champions have ever exceeded, and one the head coach himself has named as this summer's priority to fix — yet in the same season conceded the division's second-fewest shots and second-lowest xG against across a sampled window. The more plausible read is a bimodal record (very strong when the press functions, disproportionately leaky when bypassed) rather than a uniformly average defence across 34 matches. Reconciled Through Two Competitive Matches, And They Settle Nothing In Either Direction. PSV have conceded Three goals in two league matches — two at home to Fortuna Sittard in a 2-2 draw, one away at Excelsior in a 2-1 win — against a stated summer priority of conceding fewer. That Is Not Evidence The Priority Is Failing And Not Evidence It Is Working: a two-match sample cannot be compared with a thirty-four-match total, no per-match expected-goals-against baseline for 2025/26 exists in this card to compare against, and the two opponents differ materially in what they attempted. The One Structural Fact Worth Recording Is An Absence Rather Than A Number: both goals conceded in Matchweek 1 came against a side taking 0.71 expected goals' worth of chances, which is the deep-block-and-transitions mechanism this card already names, among its vulnerabilities, as the only demonstrated route to beating PSV. No Structural Defensive Weakness Is Created Here, and no improvement is claimed.Moderate confidence
• PSV do not require a settled scoreline or home advantage to execute their method — the title-clinching match was a recovery from 0-2 down to win 4-3, and they scored after 33 seconds at Ajax — but both of their 2025/26 league defeats came against the same deep-sitting, direct-transition opponent (Telstar), the only side to have found a repeatable route to beating them.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• A 21st-century Eredivisie record 24 headed goals in 2025/26, distributed across at least four named scorers rather than one specialist — a genuinely reliable non-possession route to goal, though three of the 24 belong to a since-departed player and the true full-season total is at least one goal higher than the reported figure: Flamingo's headed goal from a Perisic corner in the 17 May final-matchday win over Twente falls after the 24-goal report.Moderate confidence
• The Rendering Conflict This Field Has Carried Since Matchweek 2 Now Has A Same-Origin Instance, And It Is Strictly Stronger Evidence Than The Original. Matchweek 2 set a provider post-match reading of 4-3-3 against PSV’s own pre-kickoff ‘Starting XI’ graphic of 4-2-3-1 for an identical eleven, and this card declined to prefer either on the ground that a provider computation and a club graphic are different kinds of artifact. Matchweek 4 Removes That Explanation. The Same Provider Rendered The Same Eleven 4-3-3 At Its Pre-Kickoff Read And 4-2-3-1 At Full Time, with No Personnel Change Of Any Kind between the two — not a substitute, not a name, not a shirt number. A label that moves while the eleven does not is a Time-Varying Interpretation Of A Team Sheet, not a property of the team, and this instance establishes that about the provider’s own output rather than about a disagreement between publishers. Both Conflicts Are Preserved And Neither Is Resolved. The Contested 2025/26 Base Shape Remains Contested. Nothing Behavioural Follows From Any Of These Labels: no permanent preferred formation, no pressing identity, no rest-defence inference, no build-up identity, no block-height conclusion and no permanent midfield hierarchy is asserted here or anywhere on this card. No preferred structure is asserted, and that stays unchanged. Rows Only — no flank is stated for any player. The Matchweek 2 eleven included Joey Veerman, who has since left; that label describes a match that was played, not a shape PSV will field again.Limited confidence

Players who matter most

• Jerdy Schouten: PSV's deep-lying pivot and captain until his April 2026 ACL tear, now sidelined with no official return date and conflicting editorial estimates of when he returns (a generic 6-9 month rehab range vs. a later report placing his return "far into the second half of the season").
• Guus Til: the division's highest-volume pressing midfielder in the sampled period, and scorer of PSV's 100th league goal of the 2025/26 season on the final matchday.Moderate confidence
• Joey Veerman: 2025/26's principal creative outlet, And No Longer A PSV Player. Joey Veerman has Left PSV: the club announced on 18 August 2026 that it had reached agreement with Borussia Dortmund over his transfer, on a five-season contract there. That closes the exit question this card previously carried as open, and it does so on PSV's own authority rather than on reporting. This entry is retained rather than deleted because it is what PSV's 2025/26 creative output actually rested on, and deleting it would erase the reason his departure matters; it is NOT retained as a description of the current squad. Who Now Performs That Function Is Deliberately Not Stated Here — no successor is named, no internal candidate is ranked, and this currentness pass makes no hierarchy judgement of any kind.
• Sven Mijnans: signed from AZ as an attacking midfielder described by the club's director of football as versatile with strong running power — not a like-for-like replacement for Schouten's controlling role.Moderate confidence
• Ricardo Pepi: 6 headed goals in 2025/26, the most at the club, plus the fastest PSV goal against Ajax in Eredivisie history.Moderate confidence
• Sergiño Dest: received a one-match suspension after his fifth caution of 2025/26 in PSV's final league match, confirmed by the KNVB's own professional-section ruling to be exactly one Eredivisie league match. He did not appear in PSV's confirmed starting eleven for the opening Eredivisie fixture (PSV 2-2 Fortuna Sittard, 8 August 2026). This is disclosed as the fact it is — absence from the confirmed starting eleven — and is NOT read as proof the suspension applied to this specific fixture: his bench/18-man-squad status was not established by any source reviewed for this card, and rotation is an equally possible explanation.
• Mauro Júnior: club-confirmed as PSV's captain as of 25 July 2026 (psv.nl's own preseason match report names him "kersverse aanvoerder" — newly appointed captain); the specific link to Schouten's absence, and the Perisic-second/Veerman-third ordering, remain sourced only to a single approved-editorial report not independently confirmed by the club.
• Ruben van Bommel: returned to playing action in July 2026 friendlies (Union SG, Villarreal) after a serious knee injury sustained 21 September 2025; full match fitness after nearly a year out is not independently confirmed by any source.Moderate confidence
• Squad depth by position group, as PSV's own A-selection page stood when it was last read on 19 August 2026 (25 named players): 4 goalkeepers, 7 defenders, 7 midfielders, 7 forwards. That reading predates Lutsharel Geertruida's arrival on 21 August and has not been taken again since, so it is a defender short of PSV's current squad. No recount is offered here, because the page itself was not re-read — the breakdown stands as the dated observation it is, not as a current depth chart. Sportmonks separately reports a squad count of 27 for the same cutoff — the two figures are not reconciled, and this card carries that discrepancy as an open question rather than choosing between them. No source establishes a depth chart or starting hierarchy within any of these four groups beyond the individual roles named above.

What they do well

• PSV's 2025/26 output reads less like a hot streak than a floor: multiple goals in 25 of their first 29 matches, at least 100 league goals across the season, and a record-setting 24 headed goals — a structurally different scoring channel from their possession-based open play. A side that generates goals from sustained territorial control and from a record aerial channel does not need either channel to function on a given day to win, which is a more plausible explanation for a 19-point title margin than form alone.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• PSV's aerial channel is a routine, not a single target: the 24 headed goals are attributed across at least four named scorers, with a documented delivery-to-finish pattern (Flamingo's header from a Perisic corner on the 17 May final matchday). This matters specifically because PSV are routinely faced with a deep block and no forward pressure — an aerial/crossing channel is one route to goal that does not require playing through a compact centre, making it a genuine structural answer to PSV's most common opposition setup rather than a coincidence.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• PSV's own possession dominance is itself a defensive mechanism, not just an attacking one: in the same April 2026 window that produced 64.2% possession, PSV also conceded the division's second-fewest shots and second-lowest xG against — the two figures move together because denying the opponent the ball denies them the time to create it. Read this way, the 45 goals conceded in 2025/26 is not evidence the possession game and the defensive record are unrelated; it is evidence the defence is genuinely bimodal rather than uniformly leaky.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• PSV's control is not venue- or game-state-conditional: 14 away wins in 2025/26 (equalling the club record) alongside an 11-match consecutive home winning run, plus a demonstrated recovery from a two-goal deficit to win the title-clinching match. This removes two standard levers — a hostile away venue, or an early lead — that an opponent might otherwise use against a possession side.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• PSV's playing identity is coach-resident rather than personnel-resident: an unbroken, strengthened coaching tenure since 2023 means the system that produced three consecutive title challenges predates and outlasts any individual departure, including a club-record sale. This is the strongest single argument that this summer's turnover is a personnel change within a stable system, not an identity change.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence

Where they can be got at

• On one account of PSV's structure (a lone deep pivot behind two advanced eights), the role that insured PSV's 45-goals-conceded record against counter-attacks currently has no established occupant. Jerdy Schouten is out with an April ACL tear and no club-published return date; Ismael Saibari, one of the two advanced eights on that same account and reportedly the squad's second-highest presser, has been sold; and the midfielder signed in their place is described by the club itself as an attacking, high-running profile rather than a controller. If that structure holds, the vacancy sits exactly where PSV's defensive model needed cover — but a separate, independent account (NOS) instead describes a two-man block (Schouten AND Veerman), which would leave a different, and only partial, vacancy since Veerman remains at the club. Which framing is correct is unresolved (see the base-structure hypothesis below); the departures themselves (Schouten's injury, Saibari's sale) are not in dispute under either reading. Selection Signal, NOT A Resolution: Sven Mijnans and Nick Wanner started together as PSV's double pivot in the opening Eredivisie fixture (PSV 2-2 Fortuna Sittard, 8 August 2026), with Guus Til advanced ahead of them — matching a pairing our own pre-match expectation for that fixture had already named as a candidate. One confirmed selection is evidence of what Bosz chose for one fixture, not evidence the underlying vacancy question is settled: Mijnans is club-described as attacking/carrying rather than a like-for-like controller for Schouten's specific role, and which of the two disputed 2025/26 base-shape accounts now applies is unresolved by this selection either way. It is carried as something to watch for across further fixtures, not as a durable structural finding. A correction of fact, made on 19 August 2026: the clause above reading "which would leave a different, and only partial, vacancy since Veerman remains at the club" Is No Longer True. Joey Veerman has Left PSV: the club announced on 18 August 2026 that it had reached agreement with Borussia Dortmund over his transfer, on a five-season contract there. That closes the exit question this card previously carried as open, and it does so on PSV's own authority rather than on reporting. Under The Nos Two-MAN-Block Reading, Both Named Occupants Of That Block Are Now Unavailable — Schouten injured, Veerman departed — So The "Only Partial" Qualifier Falls Away As A Matter Of Fact. What Does Not Follow, And Is Not Claimed: that the vacancy is therefore larger, more damaging, or unfilled. Kodai Sano arrived on 8 August and the club describe him as a number 6; whether he, or anyone, occupies this role is a selection and structural question this currentness pass does not answer and has no evidence to answer. Which of the two disputed base-shape accounts applies is Still unresolved.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• The only demonstrated route to beating PSV in 2025/26 — a deep block plus direct transitions — worked exactly twice, against the same opponent, and the away instance is confounded by PSV's own player being sent off around the 40th minute, leaving effectively one clean data point behind a genuinely reusable finding.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• PSV's availability picture is more resolved than it was, but still not closed. Sergiño Dest's one-match sanction — a fifth caution of the season, imposed 18 May 2026 and explicitly scoped to the Eredivisie — is now confirmed to exist by the disciplinary ruling itself; what remains unestablished is whether an Eredivisie-scoped sanction has any bearing on the Johan Cruijff Schaal, a different competition, and no source addresses that either way. The Sportmonks team-level control was re-run and again returns no suspension record of any category — consistent with this same control's demonstrated blind spot for this exact sanction, not evidence he is clear. On injuries, the record this card previously read only as plausibly Schouten's is now confirmed by name against the provider's own squad and fixture data, and the further open record this card could not previously close also resolves to a player outside PSV's current squad, so it is no longer carried forward as a live current-squad concern. That resolution came with its own caution: a third record, seen at an earlier check the same day, had vanished from the same control by evening — a second instance, in the opposite direction, of this list moving inside a single day, and a reason not to treat any single reading of it as settled.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence

What we think happens

Each reading is shown with the evidence for it and the evidence against it. Where those pull in different directions, that is the honest state of the picture.

Squad and club news

• Ismael Saibari departed to FC Bayern München, described by PSV as a club-record transfer.
• Jerdy Schouten sustained an anterior cruciate ligament tear; surgery required; no official return date.
• Sergiño Dest excluded from one Eredivisie league match after a fifth caution in PSV's final 2025/26 league match; whether it has any bearing on the Johan Cruijff Schaal is unresolved.

• Sven Mijnans signed from AZ, contract to mid-2031.
• Bas Sibum joined as an additional assistant coach; three academy players promoted to the first team.
• PSV announced they will not continue with Myron Boadu; recorded as a squad-model event only, not availability evidence for this fixture.
• Joey Veerman was sent off against AZ in the Johan Cruijff Schaal on 2 August 2026 — a direct red card shown after a VAR review inside the opening ten minutes, with the score still 0-0. NOS reports it as his first red card in 359 career matches. Sources differ on the exact minute of the incident: the dismissal is recorded at 9 minutes by the provider and by four sources including AZ's own channel, while one report gives 6 minutes. Any resulting suspension is a separate matter and has not been established — no ruling from the KNVB or from PSV could be obtained, so its length and the competitions it would cover are unknown. This entry establishes nothing about Veerman's availability for any future fixture.
• Amir Bouhamdi made his first competitive start for PSV, against AZ in the Johan Cruijff Schaal on 2 August 2026. This records that he was selected to start a competitive fixture; it does not establish him as a settled first-choice starter, and it rests on a single report.

Who is available

• Corrected Again, And The Correction Is The Same Shape As The One v11 Made For Driouech. Alassane Plea’s Absence Has A Published Cause And Has Had One Since 14 August 2026. PSV’s own site announced that day that he sustained an injury in Friday’s training session and, after medical examination, Will Not Be In Action In Matches At Least Until The Coming International Break. v11 stated that his absence "Remains Uncaused By Any Source" — That Was False, and false by twenty days against its own cutoff. The Three Omissions Are Therefore Not Three Unexplained Absences: 14 August is the day before the Matchweek 2 match at Excelsior, so every one of them falls after the announcement. What Is Still Not Known Is Recorded As Not Known: the club states No Nature, No Severity And No Return Date, and "at least until the coming international break" is a Floor Rather Than A Return — no date for that break is published in the release and none is supplied from elsewhere. The August 2025 Medical Update Remains Excluded And Is Not Merged With This One: that was cartilage damage to his right knee in the Previous season, this is a new training-ground injury, and no severity is read across from one to the other. A Fifth Window Arrival Is Added That No Previous Version Held: Sami Ouaissa, a 21-year-old winger, joined from N.E.C. ON 1 September 2026 on a five-season contract, shirt 11 — one day before the three v11 recorded, and inside v11’s own window. Couhaib Driouech Is Not A PSV Player, on the 25 August announcement recorded at v11, and his Matchweek 2 and Matchweek 3 omissions are Still uncaused and still not retro-fitted. Sam Lammers, Ayoni Santos And Mikkel Bro Hansen Arrived On 2 September; With Ouaissa That Is Four Arrivals In Two Days And Not One Observed PSV Minute Between Them, and no selection, role or effect is projected for any of them. Joel Van Den Berg, Essien Bassey And Isaac Babadi Left On 2 September, none with an established role here, so no depth conclusion follows. Lutsharel Geertruida remains on a single 85th-minute appearance after being an unused substitute; that is availability and selection and nothing about a role, a position or a fitness ceiling. Matej Kovar and Armando Obispo both started again, so the reported transfers neither club ever confirmed have still not happened. Jerdy Schouten remains the one settled long-term absence. Sven Mijnans, Paul Wanner, Esmir Bajraktarevic, Amir Bouhamdi and Yarek Gasiorowski all appeared from the bench at FC Utrecht, which establishes availability on the day for each and nothing wider; Bouhamdi has since signed a contract extension, Which Is Not A Transfer And Establishes Nothing About Selection.Our reading of the evidence · Moderate confidence
• 2025/26 concluded 17 May 2026; the squad reported back for preseason on 29 June 2026 — roughly six weeks of rest before preparation resumed.
• Restated For The Competitive Programme That Has Now Been Played. PSV contested the Johan Cruijff Schaal against AZ on 2 August, opened the Eredivisie at home to Fortuna Sittard on 8 August, and played away at Excelsior on 15 August — seven days between the two league fixtures, with no midweek competitive match between them. No Congestion Is Established For The Period Covered. A fourth consecutive Champions League campaign is expected but its 2026/27 schedule is still not established by any source held here, so no forward congestion claim is made. The next fixture recorded is FC Groningen at home on 23 August.

• BookingsCould not be establishedNo source available to this card establishes whether any 2025/26 accumulated cautions, or an unserved cross-season exclusion, carry into the 2026/27 professional-section (sectie betaald voetbal) season for any PSV player.
• SuspensionsReported but unconfirmedSergiño Dest's one-match exclusion is confirmed at source (fifth caution, imposed 18 May 2026, explicitly scoped to the Eredivisie). Whether it has any bearing on the Johan Cruijff Schaal was never established by any source, and whether it carries into the first 2026/27 Eredivisie match is likewise unestablished — the sanction's application has not been confirmed against any specific fixture. The Sportmonks team-level control has already been shown, for this exact sanction, not to carry it — so provider silence must not be read as clearance.
• Playing eligibilityReported but unconfirmedResolved for Sven Mijnans: he started as part of PSV's confirmed double pivot in the opening Eredivisie fixture (8 August 2026), direct evidence he was registered and eligible for it. Unchanged and still unconfirmed for the three academy players promoted to the first team in June 2026 (Merién and Van den Berg among them — a July friendly appearance is not a registration record and neither started PSV's opening Eredivisie fixture); a transfer or promotion announcement remains insufficient on its own to establish eligibility for any of them. Resolved for Lutsharel Geertruida, and resolved by a statement rather than by a team sheet: PSV's head coach said at the club's own press conference on 21 August 2026 that his registration was completed in time. That makes him the first player on this card whose registration is positively established without resting on his already having been named in a matchday squad. This confirms that his registration was completed in time. It does not confirm fitness, selection or a starting place.
• InjuriesConfirmed issueJerdy Schouten's ACL absence (confirmed by the club, April 2026, no official return date) is the only confirmed current-squad injury this card relies on. A same-evening re-check on 29 July found a further open provider record that resolves to a player outside PSV's current squad, and a third record present at an earlier check the same day had disappeared by evening — the list is demonstrably unstable at short range. A fresh control on 30 July and again on 2 August returned the same two open records unchanged from the prior control, with no games-missed movement — a zero delta, which is an observation, not clearance.
• Squad and transfer statusConfirmed issueOne of the situations this check carried is now Resolved and one is new. Resolved: Joey Veerman has left PSV for Borussia Dortmund, announced by the club itself on 18 August 2026 — the previous wording, that he had asked to leave with no offer materialising, is superseded and false. (His 2 August Johan Cruijff Schaal dismissal and the never-established suspension that may have followed are now moot for this squad and are retained only as history on this card.) New And Already Settled: Kodai Sano signed from N.E.C. Nijmegen on 8 August 2026, club-announced, and was in PSV's Matchweek 2 matchday squad. Still Open And Unchanged: the club announced on 29 July that it is not continuing with Myron Boadu; reported moves involving Matěj Kovář (permanent transfer) and Armando Obispo (to RC Lens, reportedly collapsed) were not independently confirmed from an opened official source, and this pass did not re-examine either. This check therefore remains an open concern because those two remain unconfirmed — resolving one part of it does not clear the whole. A third arrival has since been confirmed — Lutsharel Geertruida, on loan from RB Leipzig on 21 August 2026 — and it closes nothing that was open here: the Kovář and Obispo situations are untouched by it.

What we still do not know

This profile records 27 points that available sources did not settle. The questions below are the ones that most affect how PSV are read; the rest are held open rather than filled in with assumptions.

• Which of PSV's own conflicting squad counts (25 named on the psv.nl A-selection page vs. 27 reported by Sportmonks) is correct, and what accounts for the discrepancy?

  A structured squad section cannot be treated as complete while the two source figures disagree.

Matches

• PSV v Fortuna Sittard — Sat 8 Aug, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 1 · Played · Read the analysis
• Excelsior Rotterdam v PSV — Sat 15 Aug, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 2 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• PSV v FC Groningen — Sun 23 Aug, 14:30 CEST · Matchweek 3 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• FC Utrecht v PSV — Sun 30 Aug, 12:15 CEST · Matchweek 4 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• Ajax v PSV — Sat 5 Sept, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 5 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• PSV v Sparta Rotterdam — Sun 13 Sept, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 6 · Kick-off passed
• FC Twente v PSV — Sun 20 Sept, 14:30 CEST · Matchweek 7 · Kick-off passed · Read the analysis
• PSV v sc Heerenveen — Fri 9 Oct, 20:00 CEST · Matchweek 8