Reigning Eredivisie champions PSV kick off its competitive schedule on Sunday with two key U.S. men’s national team players eager to get back into the mix.
Sergino Dest and Ricardo Pepi and PSV face off with Go Ahead Eagles in the Dutch Super Cup. Both Dest and Pepi have been part of PSV’s preseason schedule this summer and are among the players set to play large role in Peter Bosz’s squad.
Dest overcame a serious knee injury to feature down the final stretch of the league campaign. The versatile full back watched fellow American Richie Ledezma leave this summer, opening up an opportunity to switch into the starting lineup for the long haul.
The 22-year-old Pepi recorded 17 goals last season for PSV despite missing time due to a knee injury. With Luuk De Jong now gone, Pepi is Bosz’s No. 1 striking option for the start of the season.
Despite the aforementioned Ledezma and midfielder Malik Tillman departing this summer, PSV will be one club to monitor, especially with two thriving American players in the plans.
In Germany, John Tolkin and Julian Green are among the American contingent set to get their league schedules underway.
In Belgium, Marlon Fossey and Standard Liege continue league play after earning a victory on opening weekend.
In Scotland, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Celtic kick of their SPFL schedule against St. Mirren.
In the United States, Alex Zendejas and Club America face Minnesota United in Leagues Cup action.
Here is a closer look at this weekend’s Americans Abroad:
England
League One
Lynden Gooch and Huddersfield Town host Leyton Orient on Saturday.
Germany
2. Bundesliga
John Brooks and Hertha Berlin visit Schalke on Friday.
John Tolkin and Holstein Kiel visit Paderborn on Saturday.
Julian Green, Maxi Dietz and Greuther Furth host Dynamo Dresden on Sunday.
Johan Gomez and Eintracht Braunschweig visit Magdeburg on Sunday.
3. Liga
Terrence Boyd and Waldhof Mannheim host SC Verl on Saturday.
Netherlands
Super Cup
Sergino Dest, Ricardo Pepi and PSV host Go Ahead Eagles on Sunday.
Scotland
Premiership
Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty and Celtic host St. Mirren on Sunday.
Dante Polvara and Aberdeen visit Hearts on Monday.
Belgium
Pro League
Bryan Reynolds, Griffin Yow and Westerlo host Zulte Waregem on Saturday.
Marlon Fossey and Standard Liege host Dender on Saturday.
Austria
Bundesliga
George Bello and LASK host Sturm Graz on Friday.
Croatia
HNL
Rokas Pukstas and Hajduk Split host Istra on Sunday.
Switzerland
Super League
Konrad De La Fuente and Lausanne visit Thun on Sunday.
Denmark
Superliagen
Jonathan Amon and Vejle host Odense on Friday.
Gavin Beavers and Brondby host Viborg on Sunday.
Matthew Hoppe and Sonderjyske host Nordsjaelland on Sunday.
International
Leagues Cup
Alex Zendejas and Club America face Minnesota United on Saturday.
Cade Cowell, Richie Ledezma and Chivas face Charlotte FC on Sunday.
PSV vs FC Eindhoven (Eerste Divisie, the second tier of Dutch football)
Club Friendly:
Pepi has got 2 goals in 7th and 26th minute
3-2 at half time
With Marseille signing Igor Paixao looks likely the Tim Weah deal is probably off. Leeds should go after Weah now.
Hearing its close. Hopefully it gets done.
“Dortmund have put a $12 million price tag on Giovanni Reyna and is adamant on not selling him for a penny less. Meanwhile, Parma, who have tabled a $9 million bid for the midfielder, do not feel comfortable with the asking price and are currently in negotiation with the German side over a compromise that suits both clubs”
F#$%ing Dortmund. You don’t want the kid, you don’t need the kid, you don’t value the kid, and you got him FOR FREE, but you want to MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFIT for selling him. Borussia Dortmund did not PAY a transfer fee for Gio Reyna, as he joined the club on a free transfer from New York City FC in 2019.
Bruhhhhhh……..If I was Gio and they botched the Parma deal I’d say F#$% it, stay at Dortmund, as your world cup chances are limited anyway and he’d have to rely HEAVILY on a stellar performance in a USMNT camp to convince Poch to bring him…..ride pine (get as much minutes as you can), train harder than you’ve ever trained before in your life, get your fitness up, push for elite level endurance, train ferociously to increase your speed (average sprints per game ability)…..and if you get called to camp impress Pochettino to somehow, someway be in the mix for USMNT camp.
……..and as for Dortmund, I’d graciously say F@#$ ’em and leave the club next season as a free agent…….ON A FREE TRANSFER to anywhere you wish to go that will take you.
Dortmund isn’t going to let 9 million go. For one thing Baby Bellingham needs Gio’s number and the other thing is…they are German. They will not lose $9million out of pride.
They are hoping that since there’s one team out there who wants him…another will materialize. This will go to the deadline and then he will be a Parma player.
i don’t think a deadline deal really helps reyna. it’s not much better than parachuting into forest midseason. the lineup is semi established and he then has to break into it. he is not mr. work ethic. what he needs is a fairly snappy deal where he gets a few weeks of preseason in, can sell his technical value, begins competing to start or at least play a lot off the bench at first.
bizzy,
As MotO points out if one team is willing to spend 9 mil, there’s probably another. The window closes September 1st. They have time to play chicken.
“and you got him FOR FREE, but you want to MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFIT for selling him. Borussia Dortmund did not PAY a transfer fee for Gio Reyna, as he joined the club on a free transfer”
For whoever it is that is running the negotiations for BVB, none of that matters.
Gio is a professional and BVB makes a living flipping pro players for maximum profit.
BVB’ stance on the matter shows you just how much belief they have in Gio’s desirability.
V– you are confusing that reyna likely has a decent amount of interest — without heed to price — with how many teams are willing to pay $12m. even high 7 figures seems to thin down to a handful. at $12m is there no market at all, particularly given he has a year left.
the dynamo would do this. celtic offered something like $6m for elis. so he has a transfer market. but we wanted $8m. so we turned down $6m. kept him a window or two more.
sold him — for $1m.
a market is a willing buyer and seller. not just a price tag. you can stick a $50 price tag on that tee shirt but if people only want it for $5 off the clearance rack, you priced it wrong and only dragged out your dealmaking to make less than probably optimum price.
and you’re implying dortmund and parma play some 2 month game of chicken that validates dortmund’s asking price, when what often happens is parma gets fed up, signs someone else.
at that point, $12m was never happening, but $9m also evaporates. and then next thing you know it’s do we sell him for $6m around labor day, to anyone still trying, because you were too good for $9m in midsummer.
deadline mania works better when you have abundant interest and can create an effective auction market of competing excited buyers one-upping each other. does that sound like reyna’s situation.
IV,
There is nothing confusing about these negotiations or about who is handling them.
It is not you or me or bizzy or MotO.
It’s Parma and BVB.
Meaning they are the only ones who know what is actually going on.
Frankly that is between Parma and BvB and both will lie to you.
I don’t believe them anyway.
Both parties have variables in their own schedules that we outsiders may know nothing about.
This could wrap up tomorrow or on August 31st.
We’re all outsiders and we’ll just have to wait and see what kinds of techniques the two parties use on each other.
It all adds up to who is under pressure to get the Parma deal done sooner?
Is that Gio and Parma or BvB?
re dortmund’s treatment — “preach.” add to that making him extend to go on a crappy loan. they have helped develop some american talent but the exodus is telling.
i feel like you are going too far with the talent analysis, he remains one of our top handful of producers. he’s better than a list of guys getting regular callups or even starts. there is no reasonable way he ends up off the 23. if he is, we like to lose our mind, pepi got dropped last world cup. we take the whole club form thing too serious.
in my more flippant moments i agree with you on career. if dortmund wants to mess him up this bad, you just get disagreeable on personal terms on whatever expensive boondoggle they want next, sit a year, then more finely calibrate your next career choice. to me he and a few others get trapped by a transfer value or salary out of whack with their career accomplishments to date. i think he will get it done if he ever lands right place. holland, etc. but i think some of those type destinations would work on a free but not in the transfer market. they aren’t going to pay $10-20m for a guy who’s been mostly a supersub, circled by all the unhelpful drama.
but then we wander into one reason these deals get done is he keeps his expensive salary and everyone involved takes their slice of the transfer deal. i think that money seems a little too enticing to many players, even if it’s trapping them in subordinate roles at clubs that can afford their expense. he kind of needs to really play someplace but that might cost him world cup if he sat a year to gain control of his career.