Jelte Priem

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Process

Marked for Jelte Priem

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The NEC Chronicle

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jamiro Monteiro hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what NEC can pretend not to have heard.

Market

NEC may not be able to give Dennis Man what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Dennis Man wants continental football; whether NEC can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at NEC

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

Squad

A move Jelte Priem would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jelte Priem is living that version at NEC, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

NEC sell Jasper Cillessen for $200.0K

Jasper Cillessen has left for Roda in a $200.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Late improvement for Lee Young-Jun

At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

Paris Saint-Germain tell NEC: Lucas Digne 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 Youssef El Kachati

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at NEC

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

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The Cambuur Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Lucas Rosa

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

Boardroom

Cambuur to lose Jelte Priem for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jelte Priem has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Mark Diemers 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 Cambuur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Cambuur training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thijs Jansen 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.

Boardroom

Melle Meerdink will join Cambuur for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Melle Meerdink has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Cambuur have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Feyenoord tell Cambuur: Nacho Ferri 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.

Match

At last: Cambuur win one

5 matches without a win, and then this, against Groningen. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match

Cambuur find a way past Groningen

Groningen made Cambuur work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Nicolas Binder

7.66, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Cambuur had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief