Marked for Sam Ringeling
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market10 Apr 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
A defender's goal wins it for Sparta Rotterdam — 7.90
1 for Charles Vanhoutte, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad10 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sparta Rotterdam this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alwande Roaldsøy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lequincio Zeefuik has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
Dylan Vente left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Dylan Vente will call it something else in private.
Squad10 Apr 2028
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout6 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sparta Rotterdam have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Sparta Rotterdam close the window on a squad of their own making
19 in and 22 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
The deal with Winterthur is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sparta Rotterdam can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Dylan Vente 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Sparta Rotterdam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shunsuke Mito 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sparta Rotterdam, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Lucas Rosa
“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.
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Upbeat
Market30 Aug 2027
Sem Steijn hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Feyenoord can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The offer went to AZ this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Feyenoord asked and Newcastle United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market30 Aug 2027
Manchester United pay $20.4M, 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Feyenoord say no — this time
The offer from Sunderland for Mika Mármol 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Feyenoord
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Stenn de Mol: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Feyenoord have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Mason Greenwood 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Feyenoord training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raheem Sterling 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.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Jul 2027
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Feyenoord lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market26 Jul 2027
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Feyenoord have paid $15.1M for Alexandre Penetra, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Match26 Jul 2027
Feyenoord are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 79 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A move Alexandre Penetra would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alexandre Penetra is living that version at Feyenoord, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad26 Jul 2027
58 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market26 Jul 2027
The name of Charles Vanhoutte has come up in conversations Feyenoord were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Feyenoord
Mason Greenwood 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.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
“I watch every Feyenoord game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sparta Rotterdam runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market26 Jul 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Gonçalo Borges has his answer from Feyenoord; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
“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 Sparta Rotterdam, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Jun 2027
The name of Filip Bednarek has come up in conversations Sparta Rotterdam were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The deal with Stade Rennais is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Dylan Vente and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Jun 2027
Heerenveen paid $430.0K and Sparta Rotterdam took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Twente have kept their man, and Sparta Rotterdam go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lushendry Martes and Sparta Rotterdam agree another 4 years.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Shunsuke Mito 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
No place for Sam Ringeling in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Sparta Rotterdam are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
The knee: Sem Steijn out for 103 days
103 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Feyenoord lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market29 Mar 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Feyenoord heard it as anything else.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Feyenoord
Jose Muriel 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sam Ringeling is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Feyenoord know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shiloh 't Zand, and the manager let it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Rúben Neves gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rúben Neves is on it.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
16 appearances at Lyngby and the goals keep coming. Feyenoord are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market29 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jose Muriel’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match13 Feb 2027
Feyenoord make home a hard place to visit
19 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match15 Feb 2027
The view from the top for Feyenoord
57 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market15 Feb 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Feyenoord heard it as anything else.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match13 Feb 2027
A 1‑0 win over Heerenveen, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jordan Bos and Feyenoord agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Gijs Smal 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 Feyenoord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
$40.7M was the most the club would pay and Besiktas were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Feyenoord pay AZ $14.1M for a proper upgrade
AZ did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $14.1M for Seiya Maikuma, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Feyenoord people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
Willem II come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Feyenoord did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Seiya Maikuma arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Seiya Maikuma has, at Feyenoord, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Marked 7.71 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Ilias Azaouagh: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Feyenoord have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wants to play Feyenoord right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Feyenoord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Heracles, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match4 Jan 2027
Heracles sink to position 16
17 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match2 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Heracles's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Heracles has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Heracles know it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Sam Ringeling is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Heracles
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michael Verrips was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Alen Dizdarević has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Heracles have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match2 Jan 2027
Heracles cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match7 Dec 2026
34 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Telstar, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Heracles to sit and watch. I want to come back to Feyenoord and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
When it matters, Jose Muriel plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
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Squad
Givairo Read named in the team of the month
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
A row about effort at Feyenoord
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match4 Nov 2026
A European night to remember for Feyenoord
1‑0 against CSKA 1948, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match8 Nov 2026
5‑0, and Nacho Ferri took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Feyenoord tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match8 Nov 2026
Feyenoord make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Feyenoord have 7 straight wins of it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Nacho Ferri takes the afternoon — 8.48
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nacho Ferri provided it, and the 8.48 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match9 Nov 2026
First, on 28 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad9 Nov 2026
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market9 Nov 2026
Mika Mármol wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Feyenoord hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Givairo Read 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 Feyenoord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Nov 2026
Feyenoord make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
63 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mika Mármol and Feyenoord agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noah Bout is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Heracles to sit and watch. I want to come back to Feyenoord and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Jose Muriel plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sem Steijn’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sam Ringeling is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Heracles training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Verrips 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Heracles
Alec Van Hoorenbeeck 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Jeff Reine-Adélaïde’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Heracles.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Jeff Reine-Adélaïde was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Nathan Berghuis, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rhys Bozinovski, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 15 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Utrecht is saying, and nobody at Heracles is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Heracles asked and Sint-Truiden said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Heracles against PSV
0‑1 to PSV, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Heracles
Justin Ogenia 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Michael Verrips asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Union Berlin is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Standard Liege have kept their man, and Heracles go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Heracles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
AZ take the points off Heracles
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Nathan Berghuis to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to OH Leuven: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Heracles can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Thomas Bruns yet — 8.16
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.16 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Heracles have done the hard part with Feyenoord, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Michael Verrips 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Heracles, 1‑0 the final word against Telstar in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Sint-Truiden: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Michael Verrips dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.