The Willem II Courier
Squad7 Sep 2026
The knee: Feike Muller out for 16 days
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Willem II lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
Willem II sign Håkon Evjen for $27.0M
The paperwork is done: Håkon Evjen joins from Bodo/Glimt in a deal worth $27.0M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$2.2M settles it between the clubs for Oualid Agougil
Utrecht have accepted the money. What Willem II do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad7 Sep 2026
7 saves: Wouter van der Steen was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Kasper Boogaard, 20, steals the show — 8.07
Marked 8.07 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 12 gone
That is the business done at Willem II until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
Håkon Evjen wants more than Willem II are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Odysseus Velanas deal
Willem II ran out of time with Zwolle. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Håkon Evjen 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 Willem II this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Transfer targets Feyenoord tell Willem II: Tim Haksteeg is not for sale
- Boardroom Willem II counting the cost
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Kasper Boogaard