Guy van Wely

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Marked for Guy van Wely

76 Edition

The NAC Breda Gazette

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Age has not caught Ayoze Pérez yet — 8.12

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market10 Jan 2028

Guy van Wely 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 The request is on a desk at NAC Breda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Tempers go at NAC Breda

Nikolas Polster 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Charles Andreas Brym 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 NAC Breda know it.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Leo Greiml 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.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Manchester United tell NAC Breda: André Onana 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.

The dugout10 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Daniel Bielica

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Bielica, and the manager let it.

Market10 Jan 2028

Eyes on Guy van Wely again

The phone has started ringing about Guy van Wely again, and this time the name on the line is MVV Maastricht. NAC Breda are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match8 Jan 2028

Ángel Alarcón sends NAC Breda past Twente

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ángel Alarcón’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to NAC Breda.

In brief

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70 Edition

The NAC Breda Gazette

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout29 Nov 2027

Omar Mekkaoui says NAC Breda 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.

Match27 Nov 2027

No end in sight to NAC Breda's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at NAC Breda has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Words exchanged at NAC Breda

Nikolas Polster 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.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Words at NAC Breda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Greiml 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 dugout29 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Nikolas Polster

“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.

Match27 Nov 2027

NAC Breda rescue it on 88 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Sparta Rotterdam had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Loan watch29 Nov 2027

Jayden Candelaria counts the days

“I watch every NAC Breda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Adelaide United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

Lewis Holtby is still paying for one afternoon at NAC Breda

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.

Match27 Nov 2027

Guy van Wely rescues a point for NAC Breda

It needed Guy van Wely to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Sparta Rotterdam, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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  • Market No place for Noël Clerx in the plan
  • Player ratings Noah Bischof runs at them all day
54 Edition

The NAC Breda Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market9 Aug 2027

Mark Spenkelink is a NAC Breda player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at NAC Breda

Nikolas Polster 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Mark Spenkelink arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mark Spenkelink has, at NAC Breda, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A row about effort at NAC Breda

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leo Greiml was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Door shut on Oscar Gloukh

NAC Breda asked and Ajax said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Fredrik Oldrup Jensen signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fredrik Oldrup Jensen and NAC Breda agree another 2 years.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Cherrion Valerius knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at NAC Breda, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead9 Aug 2027

A reunion for Ilyas el Moussaoui

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

The dugout9 Aug 2027

When it matters, Mohammed Tahiri plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

14 Edition

The NAC Breda Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match28 Oct 2026

NAC Breda march on in the cup

Emmen are out and NAC Breda go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match31 Oct 2026

Still nobody has beaten NAC Breda

The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

André Ayew, 36, rolls back the years — 8.22

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.22 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Moussa Soumano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad2 Nov 2026

André Ayew 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 NAC Breda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces2 Nov 2026

One of their own: Guy van Wely

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Daniel Bielica

“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 ratings2 Nov 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Mohammed Tahiri

7.89, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. NAC Breda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match31 Oct 2026

Honours even between NAC Breda and Utrecht

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief