Isaac Smith

Central Defender - Jong Utrecht
20 Feb 2028
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Marked for Isaac Smith

78 Edition

The Jong Utrecht Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match22 Jan 2028

Jong Utrecht run riot against FC Eindhoven

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match24 Jan 2028

Every point is an argument now for Jong Utrecht

Position 19 and 19 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Davy van den Berg scores twice — 8.13

Two goals and a mark of 8.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad24 Jan 2028

7 saves: Luca Neu was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Gustav Arcos Sundqvist, 21, steals the show — 7.94

Marked 7.94 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market24 Jan 2028

Luca Neu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jong Utrecht they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Words exchanged at Jong Utrecht

Matyáš Havelka 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.

The terraces24 Jan 2028

The crowd has taken to Gustav Arcos Sundqvist

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout24 Jan 2028

A satisfied Owen Klaassen

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Owen Klaassen could afford to be generous.

In brief

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53 Edition

The Utrecht Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Aug 2027

48 days out for Bright van Dijk after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utrecht will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Jerry St. Juste 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Zidane Iqbal wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Utrecht can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Nikolas Panagiotou 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.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

Isaac Smith 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.

Market2 Aug 2027

Still no ink between Utrecht and Odysseus Velanas

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Utrecht, another week without a signature from Odysseus Velanas.

In brief

25 Edition

The Utrecht Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Jan 2027

Vasilis Barkas stands alone

10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Ibrahim Sadiq due for a Utrecht medical

Everything agreed with AZ, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market18 Jan 2027

Alonzo Engwanda moves on

AZ pay $6.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Loan watch18 Jan 2027

The goals keep arriving from Zidane Iqbal’s exile

21 goals in 20 games at TOP Oss — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Utrecht updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market18 Jan 2027

Michael Brouwer 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 Utrecht, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market18 Jan 2027

Adrian Blake moves on

NEC pay $2.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market18 Jan 2027

Utrecht say no — this time

The offer from AZ for Michael Brouwer was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Utrecht

Jerry St. Juste and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Yoann Cathline runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief