The Heracles Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
Fabian de Keijzer stands alone
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match15 Aug 2026
Heracles taken apart
0‑3 to Ajax, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market17 Aug 2026
NEC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Heracles did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Heracles
Perr Schuurs 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Koen Schilder gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Koen Schilder has just signed for Heracles, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
PSV tell Heracles: Sam Lammers 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Heracles and Perr Schuurs
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Heracles dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Heracles
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Jasper Brobbey answers for it
- Transfer targets Heracles try to borrow Kevin Gadellaa
- Market A long bet from Heracles on Koen Schilder