The AZ Gazette
Match4 Sep 2027
23 unbeaten for AZ
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 23 matches without defeat is a foundation AZ did not have in the autumn.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Jordy Clasie damages knee ligaments — 86 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 86 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Mateo Chávez at AZ
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mateo Chávez is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Troy Parrott 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 AZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market6 Sep 2027
Jordy Clasie wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at AZ hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Peer Koopmeiners 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes of Calvin Stengs at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AZ.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
Jur Schipper has seen enough of Arezzo
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AZ, and 1 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
Market6 Sep 2027
Mees de Wit is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AZ has been clear about where Mees de Wit stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Matěj Šín
- Match Calvin Stengs rescues a point for AZ
- Market Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro linked with a move away