The Heerenveen Courier
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Bram Rovers keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Heerenveen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Heerenveen
Dylan Vente and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 Dec 2026
Dirk Proper’s goal not enough for Heerenveen
Dirk Proper scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Vitesse, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Heerenveen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jacob Trenskow was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Jacob Trenskow
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
One of those days for Dirk Proper
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match26 Dec 2026
Dirk Proper answers Vitesse immediately
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Dirk Proper had Heerenveen level again within 3 minutes, and Vitesse never got to play with a lead at all.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Georginio Klaassen to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Imad Riahi gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Maas Willemsen knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Dylan Vente question follows Heerenveen around
- Squad The room hears from Dirk Proper