Timo Jansen

Central Midfielder - TOP Oss
18 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Timo Jansen

49 Edition

The TOP Oss Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Julian Kuijpers asks to leave TOP Oss

“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 targets

Keita Baldé due for a TOP Oss medical

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

Squad

Words exchanged at TOP Oss

Bart Schenkeveld 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.

Squad

Marcelencio Esajas wants to go home

“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 TOP Oss know it.

Transfer targets

TOP Oss rebuffed over Adnane Abid

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Standard Liege have kept their man, and TOP Oss go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Maurilio de Lannoy 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.

Transfer targets

TOP Oss try to borrow Kian Visser

RFC Liege have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Boardroom

TOP Oss sign 3 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

Squad

The formation has left Timo Jansen behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. TOP Oss will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Mark Pabai asks to leave De Graafschap

“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.

Market

De Graafschap say no — this time

The offer from Fortuna Sittard for Isaac Compaore 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.

Boardroom

Timo Jansen has agreed to leave De Graafschap for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Fedde de Jong signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fedde de Jong and De Graafschap agree another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at De Graafschap

Ibrahim El Kadiri 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.

Market

Go Ahead Eagles expected to open talks for Levi Schoppema

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. De Graafschap will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Transfer targets

AZ tell De Graafschap: Michael Brouwer is not for sale

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.

Squad

A row about effort at De Graafschap

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jannes Wieckhoff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

No place for Nathan Kaninda in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nathan Kaninda has his answer from De Graafschap; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

48 Edition

The TOP Oss Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mike Havekotte 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 TOP Oss, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Robin Schouten 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 TOP Oss this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at TOP Oss training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bart Schenkeveld 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.

Boardroom

TOP Oss beat the market to Timo Jansen from De Graafschap

De Graafschap will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Timo Jansen has pre-agreed a move to TOP Oss, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Twente tell TOP Oss: Victor Jensen is not for sale

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.

Transfer targets

TOP Oss try to borrow Enoch Mastoras

AZ have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Filip Janssen signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Filip Janssen and TOP Oss agree another 4 years.

The dugout

Delano Vianello 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Marcelencio Esajas 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