Alpha Diallo

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Heerenveen
7 Nov 2029
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Marked for Alpha Diallo

150 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Jun 2029

Daley Blind out for 110 days

The medical room confirms 110 days on the sidelines for Daley Blind, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Tempers go at Heerenveen

Ringo Meerveld 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.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Alpha Diallo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alpha Diallo and Heerenveen agree another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
120 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Nov 2028

The cup run ends for Heerenveen

0‑1 against Vitesse, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Nobody could get near Maxence Rivera

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Ringo Meerveld 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 Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match11 Nov 2028

A bad afternoon for Heerenveen against NEC

0‑1 to NEC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad13 Nov 2028

The manager makes an example of Dylan Vente

“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 ratings13 Nov 2028

The one thing Ringo Meerveld could not do

Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Squad13 Nov 2028

A first senior shirt for Alpha Diallo

Every debut is a small story about the future: Alpha Diallo, 22 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Dylan Vente leaves them behind him

Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Zakaria El Kachati leaves them behind him

Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

107 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Aug 2028

A one-man rearguard from Beau Reus

There were 6 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 Aug 2028

Jari Vlak 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 Heerenveen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match12 Aug 2028

5 matches without a win for Heerenveen

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Heerenveen are no longer polite ones.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Ringo Meerveld 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 Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market14 Aug 2028

As if he never left: Rick Dumfries returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Rick Dumfries is a Heerenveen player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market14 Aug 2028

Teun De Ligt is a Heerenveen player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market14 Aug 2028

Frenkie Weghorst comes home

The shirt still fits. Frenkie Weghorst is back at Heerenveen, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

A masterclass from Ringo Meerveld

Marked 9.00 — 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.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

Maxence Rivera in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief