Jayden Spier

Central Defender - Willem II
3 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jayden Spier

33 Edition

The Willem II Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Another clean sheet for Thomas Didillon-Hödl

17 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Thomas Didillon-Hödl has given nobody the chance.

Squad

Justin Hoogma 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 Willem II this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Willem II training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Devin Haen 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

Back issues
22 Edition

The Willem II Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Armin Ćulum runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Willem II

Thomas Didillon-Hödl was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Devin Haen 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.

Match

Willem II see off Roda

Three points for Willem II, 1‑0 the final word against Roda in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Thomas Verheydt

A mark of 7.75, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Jayden Spier 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Willem II Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Uriël Van Aalst runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 54. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Per van Loon hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Willem II can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Jari Schuurman 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 Willem II this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Armin Ćulum

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Words at Willem II training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Ciranni 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.

Player ratings

Armin Ćulum stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.14 on the card, and the Willem II support went home talking about one name.

In brief