Thomas Artić

Goalkeeper - Dordrecht U20
27 Jan 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Thomas Artić

58 Edition

The Dordrecht Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Dordrecht, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
57 Edition

The Dordrecht Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Kostas Lamprou out for 61 days

61 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.

The dugout

Kevin van Ouytsel keeps the receipts

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

Match

Dordrecht make home a hard place to visit

15 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

A fracture rules Thomas Artić out for 24 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.

Market

Marouane Afaker asks to leave Dordrecht

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Dordrecht

Léon Bergsma 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Dordrecht

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

Transfer targets

Grasshopper tell Dordrecht: Luke Plange is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Celton Biai

“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.

In brief