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May 5

Numan almost surely to Glasgow Rangers

PSV have reached an agreement with Glasgow Rangers about a transfer from Arthur Numan to the Scottish club. The transfer fee wasn't made known, but Van Raaij said before that it's more than 15 million guilders. Probably between 15 and 20 million guilders. Glasgow Rangers still have to agree with Arthur Numan himself. The captain has already let know he will choose Glasgow Rangers. Atletico Madrid isn't an option anymore for Numan. Important things which made him choose Glasgow Rangers were the fact that Dick Advocaat is coach there next year and the possibility for a good social life in Scotland. Numan was afraid he couldn't have a normal social life in Spain, because of all the attention of the media and the way soccer is being experienced there. The negotiations will be rounded off very soon. "Officially I haven't agreed with Glasgow Rangers yet. PSV only just gave me the right to negotiate, but I have already had an indication of the contract terms, also the financial ones, and this won't stop a transfer. It will probably be three or four years Glasgow. The club has invested a lot in me and there has to be done something back for this." PSV allowed him to go at end, because of the things Numan did for the club and because the club could catch a good transfer fee for him. Atletico Madrid have done PSV an offer of 7.5 million dollars (about 15 million guilders) yesterday, but Numan choosed Glasgow Rangers. It's not known whether this bid of Atletico Madrid would have been accepted if Numan choosed the Spanish club.

May 4

Faber heavily injured

Ernest Faber let know in his first reaction that he expects that his injurie is a heavy one. His injured ankle is two times thicker than normally, which means there's fluid in it. Tomorrow the result of the scan is made known. Faber let made this scan today in the St. Anna hospital in Geldrop. There are doubts about his competing in the Amstel Cup final and even the World Cup. Yesterday the central defender had to be substituted during the half-time of PSV-FC Groningen because of this injurie.

Gerets again 'Coach of the Year'

Eric Gerets is in Belgium choosen as 'Coach of the Year'. That's the second time on a row that he gets this honour.

Bruggink to European Championship with Netherlands u21

Arnold Bruggink is the only PSV-player who has been selected by Hans Dorjee for the Dutch national team u21 for the European Championship, which will start at May 22. From May 12 to May 17 the team will go to Zeeland for a trainings stage. At May 19 they will leave to Rumania. Whether Bruggink will get off for the Amstelcup final is not clear yet.

Waterreus not interested in Dortmund

According to the 'Algemeen Dagblad', goalie Ronald Waterreus has no plans to leave to Germany. Waterreys reacted very laconic on the reports that Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 would be interested. "Well, it's already hard to give out all my money here, why should I go to Germany to gain more there?" said Waterreus in 'De Stem'.

Standard Luik don't want Van der Doelen anymore

Standard Luik have let know they don't want to hire Björn van der Doelen any longer. The Belgian club only wants to hire him with a buy-option. But PSV don't want to talk about a buy-option, because they still have big trust in the midfielder.

Vink has to wait?

If we believe the 'Algemeen Dagblad', it's still not sure whether Marciano Vink will stay longer at PSV or not. He would have been told by PSV that they will tell him in two weeks whether he gets a new contract. This also was a big surprise for himself. There would already have been decided before that he has to leave, but now PSV may have changed their mind. That would also be the reason why there wasn't a farewell for Vink yesterday. He started training again today after another injurie.

May 3

PSV-FC Groningen 6-2

Win in last homematch

Groningen 45 minutes on the lead

Degryse scores in farewell-match

PSV reach qualification-round Champions Leauge

One match before the end of the season PSV have reached the qualification-round of the Champions Leauge after the 6-2 win on FC Groningen. They two matches in the qualification-round will be played in August.

Ride trough the stadium for leaving players

After the match today there was organised a farewell for Dick Advocaat, Philip Cocu, Jaap Stam, Marc Degryse and Jan-Willem van Ede. They were first thanked in the middle of the field and then they were driven in 2 cars trough the stadium to say goodbye to the supporters. Almost everyone had stayed in the stadium for this. Especially Dick Advocaator the WC and the Cup finals. But Cocu's day was destroyed six minutes in injry time. For a little foul Cocu received a yellow card from referee Dick Jol. This means Cocu can't say goodbye to the PSV public in next week's last home match. Cocu will transfer to Barcelona next year. A very big disappointment for Cocu. Cocu told after the match that he felt terrible, he admitted to make a foul, but it was not worth a yellow card, especially since he hadn't made a fool in the whole match and hadn't said anything to the referee. When referee Jol heard of the consequence of this yellow card, he was very sorry. Cocu will get an automatic suspension for one match now.

Kleber Leite: 'We don't want to sell Gilberto'

PSV earlier admitted to us, they want to sign Brasilian defender Gilberto to replace captain Artur Numan. According to Dutch soccer magazine VI today PSV would have reached an agreement for US$750.000 with Flamengo. In a reaction to this news Kleber Leite, the Flamengo's president, said that the PSV can not get Gilberto for US$750.000 even in a loan, so imagine what he will cost to buy. Leite also said they don't want to sell Gilberto to PSV. therefore they use the same technique PSV uses since a month after all the speculations about our stars leaving. They won't name a transfer fee, in a try to stop the negotiations and not to damage their strategic position in negotiations.

Machlas: 'PSV or abroad'

According to Greec papers Nikos Machlas has said his future will be with PSV or abroad. The chance he will go to PSV will be small in our opinion as Vitesse Arnhem demands 15 million dollar for the Greec striker, who may become European topscorer this season.

Next week decision of Numan

Arthur Numan will make his decision about his future next week. Then he will decide which team Numan will go to. Numan has to choose between Atletico Madrid and Glasgow Rangers. Both teams didn't have an agreement on the transfer fee yet. The 20 year old leftback and captain of PSV wants to go abroad for an adventure his last years of his career.

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