Jan Bürger

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The Groningen Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Jacob Ondrejka runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Moctar Diop, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81

A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Groningen

Jacob Ondrejka 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.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Rick Karsdorp 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.

Match7 Nov 2026

Thom van Bergen the difference as Groningen beat De Graafschap

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Thom van Bergen. 2‑0 against De Graafschap, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Thom van Bergen

Marked 8.24 — 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.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Brynjólfur Willumsson

“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 dugout9 Nov 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Michael Brouwer

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Virgil Dumfries kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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The Groningen Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Tygo Land, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79

A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Jan Bürger 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. Jan Bürger has, at Groningen, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Heerenveen tell Groningen: Sam Kersten 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Groningen

Marvin Peersman 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Rick Karsdorp 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Twente take the points off Groningen

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad31 Aug 2026

13 new faces, and Groningen are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Virgil Dumfries: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Groningen pick somebody else ahead of Michael Brouwer

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.

In brief