The Utrecht Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Utrecht turn down Go Ahead Eagles for Dani de Wit
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Fabián
Utrecht asked and Paris Saint-Germain said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Utrecht make their move for Oskar Sivertsen
$3.2M on the table at Go Ahead Eagles. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kevin Paredes signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin Paredes and Utrecht agree another 5 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vasilis Barkas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utrecht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Zidane Iqbal again
The phone has started ringing about Zidane Iqbal again, and this time the name on the line is Vitesse. Utrecht are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tobias Lauritsen is a square peg at Utrecht
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market3 Aug 2026
Utrecht and Tobias Lauritsen are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Victor Jensen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The dugout Vasilis Barkas asks for a word with the manager
- Market 49 months and counting on Siebe Horemans
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Tobias Lauritsen