Akin Özcan

Striker - FC Eindhoven
7 Sep 2027
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Marked for Akin Özcan

54 Edition

The FC Eindhoven Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market9 Aug 2027

Bhayangkara Presisi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Eindhoven did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Dyon Dorenbosch 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 FC Eindhoven this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Farouq Limouri 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

7 new faces, and FC Eindhoven 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Yvandro Borges Sanches has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and FC Eindhoven will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

The manager makes an example of Clint Essers

“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 dugout9 Aug 2027

Boris van Schuppen knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Eindhoven, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market9 Aug 2027

The Sven Simons story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sven Simons signs something — a contract at FC Eindhoven or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market9 Aug 2027

Skip Oosterbosch placed on the list

FC Eindhoven have made Skip Oosterbosch available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The FC Eindhoven Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Edoly Lukoki keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Eindhoven may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad28 Dec 2026

The step up is real for Akin Özcan

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Kevin van Veen 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 FC Eindhoven this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Farouq Limouri 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.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Yvandro Borges Sanches

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

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Wages eat 93% of everything FC Eindhoven earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Enoch Mastoras was the difference for FC Eindhoven

Marked 7.54. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Hugo Deenen

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

The dugout28 Dec 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Nathan Dijks chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

11 Edition

The FC Eindhoven Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

The knee: Zakaria Haddaoui out for 32 days

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

Akin Özcan is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at FC Eindhoven

Kevin van Veen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Oct 2026

John Neeskens out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for John Neeskens, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Jorn Brondeel 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.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Rangelo Janga faces his old club

Willem II next, and one man in the FC Eindhoven dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief