The Heerenveen Courier
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Heerenveen agree $15.1M for Julian Rijkhoff
The clubs have shaken hands with Ajax; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Clayton Bonevacia damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Heerenveen spell it out for Guus Depay
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Guus Depay has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
The Heerenveen board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market5 Jun 2028
Mats Egbring asks to leave Heerenveen
“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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Heerenveen to lose Jonas Veltman for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jonas Veltman has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Heerenveen
Ringo Meerveld 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.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Heerenveen bid $290.0K for Emirhan Demircan
The offer went to Utrecht this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
An offer of $220.0K for Lars Mol
Heerenveen have gone to NAC Breda with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
In brief
- Market Feyenoord expected to open talks for Ringo Meerveld
- Squad Words at Heerenveen training over how hard people work
- Boardroom Heerenveen agree a free transfer for Daley Sinkgraven