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Marked for Twan Schens

59 Edition

The Heracles Sentinel

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market13 Sep 2027

Lorenzo Milani 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 Heracles can pretend not to have heard.

Match11 Sep 2027

7 unbeaten for Heracles

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Heracles did not have in the autumn.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Jeff Reine-Adélaïde 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 Heracles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Twan Schens at Heracles

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Twan Schens is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Mason Cotcher gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mason Cotcher has just signed for Heracles, and for once the answer mattered.

Match11 Sep 2027

Jeff Reine-Adélaïde sends Heracles past NEC

It finished 2‑1, and it was Jeff Reine-Adélaïde’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Heracles.

Squad13 Sep 2027

No hiding place for Sem Scheperman

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sem Scheperman, and the manager let it.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

One of those days for Jeff Reine-Adélaïde

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.67, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market13 Sep 2027

No place for Ajdin Hrustić in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ajdin Hrustić has his answer from Heracles; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

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The Heracles Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market5 Jul 2027

Sem Scheperman 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 The request is on a desk at Heracles, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Words at Heracles training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sem Scheperman 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.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Bryan Limbombe has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Gabi Caschili 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 Heracles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Jul 2027

8 new faces, and Heracles 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.

Market5 Jul 2027

Heracles sign Twan Schens, one for the future

Twan Schens is 20, and Heracles have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

26 Edition

The Feyenoord Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match23 Jan 2027

Gernot Trauner wins the derby for Feyenoord

Derby days make names, and Gernot Trauner made his against PSV. 1‑0, bragging rights secured, and one half of town will be tired of hearing about him by Tuesday.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Gernot Trauner wins the derby

There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Feyenoord support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.

Boardroom25 Jan 2027

Twan Schens has agreed to leave Feyenoord for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Gernot Trauner 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 Feyenoord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Raoef Assady gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Raoef Assady has just signed for Feyenoord, and for once the answer mattered.

Market25 Jan 2027

Mika Mármol wants more than Feyenoord are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad25 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Raheem Sterling

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The terraces25 Jan 2027

Feyenoord supporters have found a favourite in Givairo Read

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Givairo Read has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Heracles Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match23 Jan 2027

Nowhere to hide for Heracles

0‑3 against Twente, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad25 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Bryan Limbombe out for 14 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Heracles will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market25 Jan 2027

Jannes Wieckhoff 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 Heracles can pretend not to have heard.

Match23 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Heracles

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Heracles

Luka Kulenović 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.

Boardroom25 Jan 2027

Heracles agree a free transfer for Twan Schens

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad25 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Alec Van Hoorenbeeck

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alec Van Hoorenbeeck, and the manager let it.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Couhaib Driouech

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom25 Jan 2027

Inquest at Heracles

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief