{"id":220674,"date":"2025-06-28T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220674\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:51:10","slug":"ivan-perisic-extends-contract-at-psv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220674\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Perisic extends contract at PSV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatian veteran Ivan Perisic has officially extended his contract at PSV until 2027, the club confirmed on Friday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/perisic-ivan\/4AbKyVr9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perisic<\/a>, whose contract was due to expire this month, put pen to paper on a two-year extension, much to his own delight.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;This is a wonderful day for me, my family and other loved ones,&#8221; <\/b>Perisic said on the club website.<b> &#8220;We had a great time here last season. It was a tough year, of course, with a lot of goals and assists for me personally.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;But winning the national title was ultimately the absolute highlight for all of us. Our fans were also fantastic, and I want to thank them for that. But just as I expect from the players, I also expect our supporters to take another step forward together next season.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old former World Cup finalist joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/psv\/M9UEHJWi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PSV<\/a> in September 2024 and went on to win the Dutch Eredivisie title after a spectacular comeback in the final weeks. Perisic had a significant impact on the comeback, scoring seven goals and providing three assists in the final eight league games.<\/p>\n<p>Football director Earnest Stewart called Perisic an example to other players. <b>&#8220;Ivan is a wonderful example of what it takes to reach the very top and stay there. Last season, he did a great job of bringing other players along, and that helps us enormously. We are all very happy that Ivan is staying at PSV.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"wcl-image_MVcAW\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b776d2c2-cf22-41e6-8a82-f0ef309be64d.jpg\" alt=\"Ivan Perisic's recent statistics\" title=\"Ivan Perisic's recent statistics\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>Ivan Perisic&#8217;s recent statisticsFlashscore<\/p>\n<p>After the season ended, the 144-time Croatian international refused to commit his near future to PSV and took his time to decide his next step. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/barcelona\/SKbpVP5K\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FC Barcelona<\/a> reportedly showed interest in Perisic, whose contract at PSV was due to expire this month, and PSV had reportedly given Perisic an ultimatum to decide on his future.<\/p>\n<p>Perisic made 35 appearances across all competitions for PSV last season, scoring 16 goals and providing nine assists along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Croatian veteran Ivan Perisic has officially extended his contract at PSV until 2027, the club confirmed on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114759670337782581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}