Ryan Metu

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Groningen U18
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Ryan Metu

40 Edition

The Groningen Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 May 2027

The knee: Furhgill Zeldenrust out for 132 days

132 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Groningen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market3 May 2027

Nikolai Rehnen 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 Groningen can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout3 May 2027

Tyrique Mercera says Groningen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market3 May 2027

Only the photograph left for Nikolas Brandis

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikolas Brandis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Groningen the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad3 May 2027

Words exchanged at Groningen

Ruben van Bommel 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 May 2027

A row about effort at Groningen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dies Janse was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad3 May 2027

Elvis van der Laan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elvis van der Laan and Groningen agree another 4 years.

The dugout3 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Jasper Schendelaar

“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.

Market3 May 2027

Groningen and Jasper Schendelaar are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Groningen Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market30 Nov 2026

Ryan Metu 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 Groningen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Jacob Ondrejka was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Groningen

Jacob Ondrejka 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

500 appearances for Marvin Peersman

500 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Groningen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tyrell Malacia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Marvin Peersman 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Heracles take the points off Groningen

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Wout Malen left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Ryan Metu knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ryan Metu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief