The proposed move of Anass Salah-Eddine from AS Roma to PSV Eindhoven has collapsed. PSV held a club option worth €8m and wanted to trigger it, but the player's management never reached agreement with the Dutch club. With that option set to expire tomorrow and now beyond reach, the route that would have brought the 24-year-old Morocco defender back to the Eredivisie has effectively shut. The deal that was on the table is gone, leaving any future interest to start again from a blank page. This is reported by Fabrizio Romano, a benchmark name, who carried it as an exclusive minutes ago. That said, the line rests on a single voice for now and has not yet been corroborated elsewhere, so treat the finer detail as one well-placed account rather than a chorus. The engine puts completion at just 4% — a longshot, and rightly so. For this to revive, PSV would need a fresh route, because the cheap, ready-made mechanism of their option is about to lapse with no agreement on personal terms. The breakdown with the player's side is the wall here: when an option dies and the two camps cannot align, there is little to build on before the clock runs out. For context, Salah-Eddine has moved before: FC Twente to Roma for £7m in 2025, and Ajax to FC Twente for £1m in 2024. Those figures sit comfortably around an £8m option, so the money was never the obstacle. Watch the option deadline tomorrow. Once it passes unused, this is dead unless PSV — or another club — opens a wholly new negotiation.