Jort Roovers

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58 Edition

The Excelsior Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market6 Sep 2027

Casper Widell asks to leave Excelsior

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Excelsior baulk at the price for Davis Keillor-Dunn

Wrexham wanted more than $9.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Deadline passes with 19 signed and 12 gone

That is the business done at Excelsior until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Door shut on Fedde de Jong

Excelsior asked and De Graafschap said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market6 Sep 2027

Joshua Mukeh is a Excelsior player

The fee is $1.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Emmen drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market6 Sep 2027

Noa El Hamdaoui is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Excelsior is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words at Excelsior training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gyan de Regt 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.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

The window shuts on the Jayden Tammes deal

Excelsior ran out of time with ADO Den Haag. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Jort Roovers out for 23 days

The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Jort Roovers, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

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54 Edition

The Excelsior Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

The paperwork begins on Bruno Ogbus

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Excelsior have done the hard part with SC Freiburg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market9 Aug 2027

Noa El Hamdaoui is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Excelsior is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Toma Bašić 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Gyan de Regt 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.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Excelsior rebuffed over Danilo Cataldi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lazio have kept their man, and Excelsior go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Excelsior count the cost of losing Jort Roovers

54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Noah Naujoks 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 Noah Naujoks trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Jorrit Smeets has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Excelsior will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad9 Aug 2027

An aura around David Mukuna

Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Excelsior. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.

In brief