Bas Huisman

Central Midfielder - Almere City
6 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Bas Huisman

42 Edition

The Almere City Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Amir Ismaïl is carrying Almere City

46 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Almere City

0‑3 against Jong Ajax, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Almere City finish in position 14

49 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

The dugout

Joyce Nsingi says Almere City went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Junior Kadile 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 Almere City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Timothy Fosu-Mensah 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jamie Jacobs

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Almere City dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Daley Timber: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

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30 Edition

The Almere City Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Junior Kadile

27 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Sisqo Lever says Almere City went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Almere City

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

Squad

Words at Almere City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timothy Fosu-Mensah 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Milan de Haan

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

Squad

Ruben Providence wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Almere City know it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jamie Jacobs

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Timothy Fosu-Mensah

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

The dugout

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.” Daley Timber chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

21 Edition

The Almere City Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Hamza el Dahri: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Almere City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Almere City

Junior Kadile 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Almere City

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

Squad

Bas Huisman signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bas Huisman commits to Almere City for another 5 years.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Amir Ismaïl

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Milan de Haan

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

Match

Honours even between Almere City and FC Eindhoven

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Daley Timber on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Daley Timber after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Jesper van Riel

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against De Graafschap in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

17 Edition

The Almere City Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and Amir Ismaïl takes the afternoon — 9.54

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Amir Ismaïl provided it, and the 9.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Sebastiaan Hagedoorn, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76

A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Words exchanged at Almere City

Junior Kadile 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.

Match

Almere City rescue it on 97 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 97. VVV-Venlo had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match

Almere City and VVV-Venlo take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Tristan Kuijsten 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.

The dugout

Daley Timber on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Daley Timber after the 3‑3 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Joël van der Wilt 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.

The dugout

Almere City pick somebody else ahead of Job Kalisvaart

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief