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PSV Eindhoven · No. 27 · contract to 2029 Tier 1 ✅ Full · FotMob/Wikipedia/press Tier 2/3 ❌ 0/12 · Pending match-log review 🇷🇴 Romania · 43 caps · Euro 2024 starter
Dennis Man
🇷🇴
PSV Eindhoven · No. 27 Romania · 43 caps · 11 goals €13M value · Contract 2029
27
RW · 27yr · Romania · Left-footed · FCSB → Parma (5 seasons) → PSV
Dennis
Man
RW Inverted winger / AM Eredivisie · Netherlands 🇷🇴 Romania · Euro 2024 starter vs Netherlands
27
Born Aug 26, 1998
7G · 7A
Eredivisie 25-26 (1,496')
7.29
Avg FotMob rating
43 / 11
Romania caps / goals
€11M
Parma fee (2020) — Romanian league record export
7 goals AND 7 assists in just 1,496 minutes — an elite involvement rate, if on a lower workload than most teammates Started for Romania against the Netherlands at Euro 2024 (2 Jul 2024) — a real, historical head-to-head, though a 0-3 loss €11M move to Parma in 2020 was the highest fee ever paid for a player exported from the Romanian league at the time ⚠️ Unused substitute in the most recent supplied PSV match (Sparta Rotterdam) — worth tracking whether that's rotation or something else
Proxy FGA Rating
7.9
/ 10.0 · PROXY
Tier 1FotMob/Wiki/pressFull
Tier 2CompositePending
Tier 3Scout (Jim Totime)0/12 ❌
Data-only estimate from 2025-26 season · not the evidence-weighted FGA · elite per-minute output, held back slightly by a lower total workload than peers
€13.0M
Transfermarkt value
as of Dec 2025
1st PSV season
📊 DATA STATUS · TIER 1 COMPLETE (PUBLIC RECORD) · TIER 2/3 NOT YET SCOUTED
Every number here is sourced from FotMob, Wikipedia, and press coverage (linked in Scouting Intel). Per Empire's evidence-first rule, OBI/SII/DMA/SPI Tier 3 metrics, Attribute ratings, and Philosophy Fit scores stay PENDING until match footage is logged — same standard applied to every card in this series.
🇷🇴 THE STORYLINE THIS CARD ACTUALLY TELLS
A Romanian international winger with a genuinely elite per-minute production rate in his debut PSV season — 7 goals and 7 assists in just 1,496 minutes, one of the best involvement rates in this whole card series. But the minutes total itself is lower than nearly every other PSV player covered so far, and he was an unused substitute in the most recent supplied match (Sparta Rotterdam). Whether that's simple squad rotation on a deep PSV roster or something more specific (form, fitness) isn't clear from public sources and is worth watching rather than assuming either way.
🇷🇴 UTA Arad (senior debut, 2015) → FCSB (2016 · Liga I Team of Year '18-19, Cupa României, Romanian Footballer of the Year 2020) → Parma (€11M, 2020 · 5 seasons, 28G in 142 apps, Serie B title 23-24) → PSV Eindhoven (12 Aug 2025 · €7.5-9M · contract to 2029)
7G · 7A
Eredivisie 2025-26 · 1,496 minutes
7 goals plus 7 assists in under 1,500 minutes is roughly 0.84 goal contributions per 90 — an elite involvement rate for a winger. FotMob's own comparison flags him scoring highly on goals, assists, and rating relative to Eredivisie right wingers. The open question is why the total minutes are relatively low given that rate.
🏆 PEDIGREE — A RECORD ROMANIAN EXPORT, A EURO 2024 STARTER
Liga I Team of the Year (2018-19), Cupa României winner, and Gazeta Sporturilor's Romanian Footballer of the Year (2020) before his €11M move to Parma — the highest fee ever paid for a player exported from the Romanian championship at the time. Five seasons in Italy produced 28 goals in 142 Serie A/B appearances combined and a Serie B title (2023-24). He's a genuine Romania regular: 43 caps, 11 goals, and started at Euro 2024, where Romania topped their group before losing to the Netherlands in the round of 16.
🎯 THE MINUTES QUESTION — REAL, NOT YET EXPLAINED
1,496 minutes is notably fewer than most other PSV attackers covered in this card series this season, despite the elite per-90 output. He started PSV's season-opener and the March Telstar match, but was an unused substitute for the most recent supplied file (Sparta Rotterdam, 11 April 2026). Public sources don't explain why — exactly the kind of pattern that's worth checking directly against the footage rather than assuming rotation, fitness, or form.
7
Goals · Eredivisie
0.42/90
7
Assists
0.42/90
1,496'
Minutes played
Lower than peers
7.29
Avg rating
Strong season
43/11
Romania caps/goals
Euro 2024 starter
2
Yellow cards
Clean
Profile
Full nameDennis Man
BornAug 26, 1998 · Romania 🇷🇴
FootLeft-footed
ClubPSV Eindhoven
Joined PSV12 Aug 2025 · €7.5-9M
ContractJun 30, 2029
Shirt no.27
NT status🇷🇴 43 caps · 11 goals · Euro 2024 starter
Tier 3 Status
0/12 confirmed
Confirmed (video-evidence required)
All 12 T3 metrics (OBI_P/T/S, SII_A/T/R, DMA, SPI, CRS, CHR, MCS, CLM, OMS, DYN, CRK) are unscored. 4 match files received, spanning current-season PSV football and a historical Euro 2024 international (see Matches tab).
Preliminary Data Verdict
A 27-year-old Romanian winger with genuine pedigree (record Romanian export fee, Serie A/B experience, established international) producing an elite output rate in his first PSV season — with an open question about why his minutes total trails most of his new teammates.
Empire FGA Status — Not a Final Verdict
Tier 1 data-complete · Tier 2/3 unscored · FGA composite cannot be calculated. The central question worth tracking on video: is the elite per-90 output a sign of a genuinely undervalued talent being rotated for tactical reasons, or is there a form/fitness factor limiting his minutes that public sources don't capture?
Style Notes — Preliminary
Media/data, not scored
Statistical Radar
Raw % from real 25-26 totals
FotMob Rating Trend
Last 10 matches · real data
❌ ATTRIBUTES PENDING — 0/24 SCORED
Attribute circles (Technical/Mental/Physical) are a scouting judgment — exactly the layer Empire's "no score without evidence" rule protects. Every row below is left unscored until Jim logs timestamped match evidence. What follows is the category list only.
Technical / Attacking
Mental
Physical
Tier 1 — FotMob · Wikipedia · Press
Tier 2 — Composite
Pending
❌ NOT CALCULABLE YET
Tier 2 is derived directly from confirmed Tier 3 sub-metrics in Empire's methodology. Since Tier 3 is 0/12, Tier 2 has nothing to composite from.
FGA Weighting Breakdown
Season Context
1st PSV season (2025-26)
Groningen (23 Aug '25): Started (PSV debut)
Telstar (22 Mar '26): Started
Sparta Rotterdam (11 Apr '26): Unused substitute
Romania vs Netherlands (2 Jul '24): Started — historical, pre-PSV
Proxy FGA Rating — 7.9 / 10 · Methodology
Tier 1 estimate only · not the evidence-weighted FGA
⚠️ Read before citing this number
Empire's real FGA is 20% Tier 1 / 30% Tier 2 / 50% Tier 3. With Tier 2/3 both empty, that formula can't run. This 7.9 is a substitute built only from public Tier 1 numbers. It leans heavily on an elite per-90 output rate, deliberately discounted by an availability component that reflects real, unexplained lower minutes relative to teammates — don't read the high per-90 rate as equivalent to a proven full-season workload.
Tier 3 · Awaiting Scout Assessment · 0 Matches Reviewed
Footage received, not yet scouted
Per the Empire Agent 1/2 workflow: paste timestamped match observations (minute, second, description, confidence) for Man and I'll structure them into OBI/SII/DMA/SPI/CRS/CHR/MCS/CLM/OMS/DYN/CRK evidence logs and calculate scores from that evidence — not the other way around. Given the strong per-90 output, off-ball movement into shooting/passing lanes (OBI_S, OBI_P) should be a priority once reviewed, alongside the Euro 2024 footage for a look at his level against elite senior opposition.
OBI Off-Ball Intelligence ❌ PENDING
SII Sprint Intensity Index ❌ PENDING
Video Completeness
All 10 Remaining Metrics
STYLE NOTES — PRELIMINARY (MEDIA & DATA), NOT A SCORED PHILOSOPHY FIT
Rather than assign fake fit percentages against Michels/Cruyff/Guardiola, the traits below are pulled straight from published career coverage (FCSB/Parma/Romania federation materials, FotMob comparisons) and are qualitative only.
Sourced Style Descriptors
Left-footed right winger — inverted profile, cuts inside to shoot/pass Elite involvement rate — rates highly on goals, assists, and rating vs Eredivisie RWs Genuine Romania regular — 43 caps, 11 goals, Euro 2024 group-stage starter Record Romanian league export (€11M to Parma, 2020) Five-season Serie A/B production — 28 goals in 142 appearances
Being left-footed on the right wing is itself a tactical signal — it typically means cutting inside onto the stronger foot rather than crossing from the byline, which likely partly explains the balanced 7G/7A split. This is inference from the raw stats, not confirmed video evidence.
Philosophy Fit Radar
Not available — Tier 3 required
Philosophy Fit scoring (Michels / Cruyff / Guardiola / Lobanovskyi weightings) runs on Tier 3 evidence logs. 0 matches scouted → chart withheld rather than shown with invented numbers.
Career Timeline
Born Aug 26, 1998 · Romania
Senior debut at UTA Arad, 2015. Moved to FCSB (Steaua București) in 2016.
2018-19 · Liga I Team of the Year
Breakout recognition. Followed by a Cupa României win the next season.
2020 · Romanian Footballer of the Year
Gazeta Sporturilor award. Confirmed his status as Romania's top domestic prospect.
2020 · Transfers to Parma, €11M
Record Romanian league export fee at the time. Began a five-season spell in Italy across Serie A and Serie B.
2023-24 · Wins Serie B title with Parma
Promotion campaign. Part of the squad that returned Parma to Serie A.
2 Jul 2024 · Starts vs Netherlands, Euro 2024 Round of 16
Romania lost 0-3. Still, Romania topped their group at the tournament — a genuine international-level appearance, kept here as an honestly-dated historical file rather than folded into the current PSV season set.
12 Aug 2025 · Signs with PSV Eindhoven
€7.5-9M, four-year deal to 2029. Ended his five-season Parma spell (28 goals, 142 apps combined).
23 Aug 2025 · PSV debut vs Groningen
Started immediately in a 4-2 win.
4 Oct 2025 · First PSV goal
4-0 away win vs PEC Zwolle. Confirmed quick adaptation to Eredivisie.
22 Mar 2026 · Starts vs Telstar
Shock 3-1 defeat. Part of the starting attack.
11 Apr 2026 · Unused substitute vs Sparta Rotterdam
Squad, not pitch. Did not feature in the 2-0 win — reason not confirmed by public sources.
FotMob Rating — Recent Matches
Real data · club appearances
Transfer & Contract Ladder
FCSB → Parma€11M (2020)
Parma → PSV€7.5-9M (12 Aug 2025)
Current value (Transfermarkt)€13.0M (Dec 2025)
Value range across sources€10-15M
ContractThrough 30 Jun 2029
Career total: 28 goals in 142 Serie A/B appearances combined at Parma over five seasons — a real, verifiable long-term production record.
Season-by-Season Register
SeasonClubCompetitionAppsGoalsNotes
2020-21 → 24-25ParmaSerie A / Serie B142 (career total)28Serie B title winner 2023-24
2025-26PSVEredivisie1,496 min77 assists · 7.29 avg rating · debut PSV season
International (Romania) 43 caps · 11 goals · Euro 2024 starter (0-3 vs NED, R16)
Data-Driven Scouting Report — Preliminary
Public sources only · Tier 3 not conducted
Dennis Man is a 27-year-old left-footed right winger for PSV Eindhoven and the Romania national team, born 26 August 1998. He began his senior career at UTA Arad in 2015 before moving to FCSB in 2016, where he was named to the Liga I Team of the Year (2018-19), won the Cupa României, and was voted Gazeta Sporturilor's Romanian Footballer of the Year (2020). This report is built entirely from public statistical sources (FotMob, Wikipedia, Transfermarkt) and press coverage — it is not a Tier 3 video-scouted assessment.
His move to Parma in 2020 (€11M) was the highest fee ever paid for a player exported from the Romanian league at the time. Over five seasons there, he made 142 appearances across Serie A and Serie B combined, scoring 28 goals, and helped Parma win the Serie B title in 2023-24. He signed with PSV on 12 August 2025 for a fee reported between €7.5M and €9M, on a four-year contract through 2029.
His 2025-26 debut PSV season shows an elite per-minute output. 7 goals, 7 assists, 1,496 minutes, 7.29 average FotMob rating, only 2 yellow cards — roughly 0.84 goal contributions per 90 minutes, among the best rates in this whole card series. FotMob's own comparison flags him scoring highly on goals, assists, and rating relative to Eredivisie right wingers. The notable open question: his total minutes trail most other PSV attackers covered so far, and public sources don't explain why.
Match-file participation across the supplied set reflects that pattern. He started PSV's season-opening 23 August 2025 win over Groningen (his club debut) and started again against Telstar on 22 March 2026. He was an unused substitute for the 11 April 2026 Sparta Rotterdam match — in the squad, not injured or absent, just not selected to play. The fourth file — Romania vs Netherlands — corresponds to the Euro 2024 Round of 16 tie on 2 July 2024, where Man started for Romania in a 0-3 loss; this is a real, verified match, but a historical one from before his PSV move, kept clearly dated rather than mixed into the current-season set.
His international record is well-established, not a recent development. He made his senior Romania debut in March 2018 and has since earned 43 caps and 11 goals, including a starting role throughout Euro 2024, where Romania topped their group before exiting to the Netherlands.
Empire FGA Status Note
Tier 1 data-complete · Tier 2/3 not scored · No final FGA composite. The open question worth tracking on video: is the elite per-90 rate a sign he should be playing more minutes, or is there a tactical/fitness reason for the rotation that isn't visible in public box scores? That's exactly what direct match review would help settle.
All Tier 1 Season Totals (2025-26)
Tier 3 Event Log
0 events · not yet scouted
No match footage has been reviewed for events yet.
This panel will populate with timestamped OBI/SII/DMA/SPI events once Jim reviews the match video on file.