The Groningen Courier
Squad1 Apr 2030
Isak Hansen-Aarøen is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.80 with 22 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market1 Apr 2030
Jordy Clasie asks to leave Groningen
“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.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Rowan Besselink: 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.” Groningen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Myron Boadu 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 Groningen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Apr 2030
A masterclass from Myron Boadu
Marked 10.00 — 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.
Match30 Mar 2030
Groningen find a way past Roda
Roda made Groningen work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings1 Apr 2030
One of those days for David van der Werff
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Apr 2030
Isak Hansen-Aarøen in the eights
A performance of 9.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Jordy Clasie 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
- Player ratings The one thing Oskar Zawada could not do
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Travis Hernes
- Market Paul Piffer leaves for nothing