“PSV renews interest in NEC’s key player”

For PSV, it will most likely be a busy transfer summer ahead. Ismael Saibari will most likely leave for FC Bayern Munich, and Anass Salah-Eddine will also return to AS Roma to fight for his chance there.

It is also always a question where the future of Sergino Dest and Joey Veerman lies. A transfer for Ricardo Pepi and Esmir Bajraktarevic is also among the possibilities.

Matej Kovar would also generate interest from abroad. For example, the Italian club Napoli would have the Czech goalkeeper on its radar.

Besides these PSV players, the club itself is also looking for the necessary reinforcements. According to transfer journalist Mounir Boualin from Soccernews.nl, PSV has again been left out in its pursuit of Kodai Sano from NEC.

Sano was this season one of the key performers of Dick Schreuder's stunt squad, who managed in the final matchday of the Eredivisie to qualify for the Champions League preliminary round. ''The midfielder of NEC had already been on PSV's radar earlier, but at the time it still cost a fortune. Whether they will now climb so high into the tree again in Nijmegen remains to be seen. What is clear, however, is that the Eindhoven side seem to want to make a bid for the Japanese player'', as Boualin writes on the website of Soccernews.nl.

According to the transfer journalist, there is a chance that PSV will knock on Nijmegen’s door in the short term to take the Japanese player over. Both the club and the player would now be aware of the interest PSV has shown.

Sano would be open to a transfer to PSV, Boualin says. The midfielder, despite a strong season with Nijmegen Eendracht Combinatie, was not included in Japan’s World Cup squad.