The Excelsior Gazette
Market27 Aug 2029
Kian Visser agrees terms with Cambuur
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Excelsior people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Stijn van Gassel stands alone
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Excelsior agree $2.1M for Wassim Bouziane
The clubs have shaken hands with AZ; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Match25 Aug 2029
Excelsior end the wait against Utrecht
It had gone 10 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
The dugout27 Aug 2029
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Market27 Aug 2029
Guilherme Cardoso 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 The request is on a desk at Excelsior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A move Jasper Thys 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. Jasper Thys is living that version at Excelsior, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market27 Aug 2029
Only the photograph left for Marko Zivkovic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Zivkovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Excelsior the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Wout Frimpong due for a Excelsior medical
Everything agreed with AZ, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
In brief
- Boardroom Marko Zivkovic has agreed to leave Excelsior for nothing
- Transfer targets Excelsior rebuffed over Elias Huth
- Squad Words at Excelsior training over how hard people work