The Heerenveen Courier
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
KV Oostende tell Heerenveen: Hans Batshuayi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dirk Proper stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dirk Proper and Heerenveen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Heerenveen
Dylan Vente 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Heerenveen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ringo Meerveld 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Heerenveen has picked up the phone to Dirk Proper
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Matías Arezo is in the works
Heerenveen have made the call to Penarol. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Gustavo Varela is in the works
Heerenveen have made the call to Monza. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Heerenveen 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
Ringo Meerveld knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Heerenveen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Mats Egbring told to find a new club
- Market The Dylan Vente question follows Heerenveen around
- Market Heerenveen and Sam Kersten are talking past each other