The Vitesse Sentinel
Market5 Jul 2027
Valon Zumberi 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 The request is on a desk at Vitesse, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Lúkas Petersson will not be coming to Vitesse
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at VfL Bochum is saying, and nobody at Vitesse is enjoying the guessing.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Home is on Kévin Monzialo'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; Vitesse are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Vitesse
Remco Balk 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Zwolle tell Vitesse: Corean Drost 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Lars Knuiman
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Vitesse will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Marco Schikora is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Marco Schikora has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market5 Jul 2027
Still no ink between Vitesse and Kévin Monzialo
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vitesse, another week without a signature from Kévin Monzialo.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Vitesse try to borrow Kevin Gadellaa
Utrecht have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets Vitesse ask about Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson
- Boardroom Intake day at the Vitesse academy
- The dugout Connor van den Berg knocks on the manager’s door