The Almere City Chronicle
Squad17 May 2027
Amir Ismaïl is carrying Almere City
46 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match15 May 2027
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.
Match17 May 2027
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 dugout17 May 2027
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.
Squad17 May 2027
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.
Squad17 May 2027
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 dugout17 May 2027
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.
Boardroom17 May 2027
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 dugout17 May 2027
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
- Player ratings Ferdy Druijf was unplayable
- The dugout Joep Kluskens knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Almere City and Bas Huisman are talking past each other