Benjamin Parlov

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19 Nov 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Parlov

68 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Nathan Markelo 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 The request is on a desk at Vitesse, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Vitesse

Remco Balk 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.

The dugout

Nathan Markelo frozen out at Vitesse

This is not rotation. Nathan Markelo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Vitesse is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Vitesse training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levent Mercan 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

The manager makes an example of Nordin Bakker

“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

Nathan Markelo 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 Vitesse know it.

Squad

Benjamin Parlov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Benjamin Parlov and Vitesse agree another 5 years.

Market

Mitchel Bakker linked with a move away

The name of Mitchel Bakker keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vitesse say nothing, which says plenty.

Looking ahead

Sven Mijnans faces his old club

Willem II next, and one man in the Vitesse dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

Back issues
39 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Pontus Dahbo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96

A mark of 7.96 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 Vitesse

Jozhua Vertrouwd 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

Whatever happens, Vitesse do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at Vitesse training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Solomon Bonnah 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.

Match

Vitesse caught on 90 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Helmond Sport scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Squad

Benjamin Parlov 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 Vitesse know it.

Squad

Kévin Monzialo is carrying Vitesse

7 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Loan watch

Hylke van der Mast wants to come home

“I did not go to VVV-Venlo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vitesse and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.

Player ratings

Omar Zouggary runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief