Deadline Day: PSV refuses a million-dollar bid for Bakayoko, Depay polled

Tuesday is the last day on which football clubs can sign or sell players within much of Europe during this winter period. Especially at PSV it is busy with transfers. Philipp Max has left Eindhoven. On the other hand, the arrival of Patrick van Aanholt and Thorgan Hazard.

The 29-year-old Max will finish this football season at the German Eintracht Frankfurt. He is loaned to the number six in the Bundesliga with an option to buy. Max previously played in Germany for Schalke 04 and FC Augsburg. In Eindhoven he grew into an international. Max has played 117 official matches for PSV since the summer of 2020. Max scored eight times and gave twenty assists.

Van Aanholt and Hazard to PSV
Patrick van Aanholt replaces Max. De Bosschenaar will be rented from the Turkish Galatasaray for the rest of this season. PSV also hopes to hire him next season.

The transfer of Belgian attacker Thorgan Hazard from Borussia Dortmund is also complete. He is rented from the German top club for five months.

PSV rejected a million-dollar offer from Paris Saint-Germain for Johan Bakayoko. “Those are things that you don’t even see coming in football. They are strange things in this period,” said general manager Marcel Brands on Tuesday on the last day of the transfer market.

PSG contacted Brands on Monday. “They literally said: he will not play with you and he will play with us. I think he plays in the same position as Messi, I thought. But it is a compliment to PSV and Bakayoko that such a club is thinking of this talent .”

Depay polled
PSV tried to bring Memphis Depay back to Eindhoven this transfer period. “Memphis said: I’m going to see what happens this transfer period. Two days later, Atlético Madrid reported,” said Brands about the former PSV player.

Finally, Vitesse has a good chance of getting Marco van Ginkel last minute to take over.

New acquisitions NAC and TOP Oss
NAC further strengthened the selection on Tuesday with Matthew Garbett. The 20-year-old midfielder will come over from Torino FC on a rental basis until the end of the football season. NAC has stipulated an option to purchase.

21-year-old Thijs van Leeuwen has chosen TOP Oss as home base, the club reports. He is committed for the next year and a half, with the option of another season. The attacking midfielder comes from the youth academy of FC Twente and made the transition to the first selection in 2020. He made his debut in September 2020 and played 21 matches, scoring three goals. “He is a player who has the ability to play between the lines, is focused on the ball and can give us offensive impulses. We think he is capable of a lot,” says technical director Klaas Wels.

Jeffrey Buma to sc Heerenveen
Former PSV player Jeffrey Bruma will play for sc Heerenveen for the rest of the season. The 31-year-old Bruma comes transfer-free from the Turkish Kasimpasa and signs a contract in Heerenveen until the end of the season. Bruma played for PSV from 2013. With the team from Eindhoven he became national champion in 2015 and 2016. In the summer of 2016 he then left for Wolfsburg, but due to injuries he was rented out by that team to Schalke 04 and FSV Mainz 05, among others. In 2021 Bruma made a transfer-free transfer to the Turkish club Kasimpasa.

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