Dirk Baron

Goalkeeper - Zwolle
26 Jan 2027
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Marked for Dirk Baron

23 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market4 Jan 2027

Dirk Baron puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zwolle, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Lee Young-Jun is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Zwolle will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market4 Jan 2027

Utrecht come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zwolle did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Zwolle

Younes Namli was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market4 Jan 2027

Ryan Thomas attracts admirers

The name of Ryan Thomas has come up in conversations Zwolle were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thijs Oosting is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom4 Jan 2027

Daan Maas will join Zwolle for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Daan Maas has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Zwolle have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Market4 Jan 2027

Sherel Floranus told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sherel Floranus has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Zwolle.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Jan Faberski named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jan Faberski is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Sep 2026

Lee Young-Jun 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 Zwolle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Simon Graves 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Ryan Thomas

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Koen Kostons was the difference for Zwolle

Marked 7.63. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Younes Namli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Tom de Graaff

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Tom de Graaff has come out of that comparison in the side, and Zwolle have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

3 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Dirk Baron gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dirk Baron has just signed for Zwolle, and for once the answer mattered.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Odysseus Velanas goes

Feyenoord paid $1.7M and Zwolle took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zwolle

Younes Namli was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Koen Kostons

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nick Viergever was immovable

17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tobias Sommer 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A defender's afternoon for Tobias Sommer

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Koen Kostons runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match15 Aug 2026

Zwolle and Utrecht cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Utrecht came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief