Seth Annink

Striker - Zwolle
1 Oct 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Seth Annink

138 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Dylan Mbayo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Thijs Oosting is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zwolle is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Zwolle

Lucas Rosa 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.

Squad

Thijs Oosting 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.

Match

Zwolle come up short against Heerenveen

Heerenveen left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Kenzo Riedewald 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

Calvin Berghuis: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Nick Viergever

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

Market

Tom de Graaff linked with a move away

The name of Tom de Graaff keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zwolle say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
119 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Tom de Graaff

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dylan Mbayo

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Jesper van Riel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zwolle they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zwolle

Lucas Rosa 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

Zwolle come up short against AZ

AZ left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thijs Oosting 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.

Squad

Seth Annink signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Seth Annink commits to Zwolle for another 4 years.

The dugout

Thijs Oosting is still paying for one afternoon at Zwolle

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Calvin Berghuis: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

66 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Younes Namli

81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zwolle lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Lucas Rosa beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Ties van der Maat asks to leave Zwolle

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side

news_b_frozen_out_of_the_side

Squad

A falling-out at Zwolle

Younes Namli 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 Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Graves 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 Simon Graves

“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.

Player ratings

Koen Kostons in the eights

A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Still no ink between Zwolle and Menno Koch

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Zwolle, another week without a signature from Menno Koch.

In brief