The Dordrecht Herald
Squad6 Sep 2027
The knee: Kostas Lamprou out for 52 days
52 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dordrecht lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market6 Sep 2027
Noah Bischof 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 The request is on a desk at Dordrecht, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Thomas Artić out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dordrecht will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 18 signed and 15 gone
That is the business done at Dordrecht 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Home is on Celton Biai's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dordrecht are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Dordrecht
Timothy Fosu-Mensah 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Door shut on Mohamed Sherif
Dordrecht asked and Al Ahly said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
No hiding place for Noah Bischof
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noah Bischof, and the manager let it.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Kevin van Ouytsel 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 Dordrecht, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market No place for Lorenzo Codutti in the plan
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Joseph Amuzu's mistake
- Looking ahead Léon Bergsma faces his old club