The De Graafschap Post
Boardroom6 May 2030
De Graafschap put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 May 2030
Noë Misumi 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 De Graafschap can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 May 2030
Only the photograph left for Armin Sivić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Armin Sivić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around De Graafschap the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad6 May 2030
Tempers go at De Graafschap
Ibrahim El Kadiri 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 May 2030
Diango Hemminga signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diango Hemminga commits to De Graafschap for another 3 years.
Squad6 May 2030
Ties Wieggers knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at De Graafschap, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Boardroom6 May 2030
De Graafschap pull $14.4M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad6 May 2030
A wage question at De Graafschap
Isaac Compaore has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Market6 May 2030
Argyris Christodoulou placed on the list
De Graafschap have made Argyris Christodoulou available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- Market Nathan Kaninda runs his contract down
- Boardroom The De Graafschap production line keeps running
- Boardroom De Graafschap were not finished after all