The Twente Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
92 days out for Joël Drommel after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Twente will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lars Unnerstall stands alone
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Both of them Rafael Giraldo's — 8.66
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Vladislav Torop
Twente asked and CSKA Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Twente
Ramiz Zerrouki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Twente get the job done against Utrecht
A 3‑1 win over Utrecht, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
One of their own: Sondre Ørjasæter
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Sondre Ørjasæter was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.37. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Twente training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Nagel 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
- The dugout Owen Brobbey: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Ricky van Wolfswinkel does not fit this one
- Player ratings Daan Rots was unplayable