Jay Amour

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9 Jul 2028
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Process

Marked for Jay Amour

101 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Zwolle

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Naj Lulić 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 The request is on a desk at Zwolle, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Zwolle pay Utrecht $4.6M for a proper upgrade

Utrecht did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $4.6M for Ibrahim Sadiq, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Dion Versluis due for a Zwolle medical

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

Market

Zwolle sell Koen Kostons for $3.2M

Koen Kostons has left for AZ in a $3.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A falling-out at Zwolle

Stije Resink and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

$4.6M for Ibrahim Sadiq, and Zwolle supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ibrahim Sadiq from Utrecht for $4.6M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Transfer targets

Zwolle rebuffed over Matěj Kovář

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

Squad

Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bram Rovers 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.

In brief

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78 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sherel Floranus asks to leave Zwolle

“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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Björn Mellema at 20 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Björn Mellema did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Thijs Oosting 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 Zwolle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Zwolle beat the market to Jay Amour from Ajax

Ajax will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Jay Amour has pre-agreed a move to Zwolle, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Michael Davis

Zwolle asked and VVV-Venlo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Silvinho Esajas 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.

Match

Zwolle rescue it on 88 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Twente had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

Jahlani Fonteni 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.

Transfer targets

Zwolle ask about Robbin Weijenberg

A loan enquiry to Twente: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief