Sieb Jongens

Central Midfielder - Académico de Viseu
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Sieb Jongens

53 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Aug 2027

Cristian Ferreira breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad2 Aug 2027

André Clovis 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 Académico de Viseu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Aug 2027

The step up is real for Sieb Jongens

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Robinho 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 targets2 Aug 2027

SuperSport United tell Académico de Viseu: Thulani Billiat 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 dugout2 Aug 2027

Lorougnon Gohi asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market2 Aug 2027

André Clovis linked with a move away

The name of André Clovis keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Académico de Viseu say nothing, which says plenty.

Market2 Aug 2027

The clock runs on Matheus Sampaio's contract

12 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

Luís Silva has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Luís Silva has written the date down.

In brief

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51 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jul 2027

44 days out for Cristian Ferreira after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Académico de Viseu will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Owen Oseni will not be coming to Académico de Viseu

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Plymouth Argyle is saying, and nobody at Académico de Viseu is enjoying the guessing.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Académico de Viseu

André Clovis 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.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Bruno Pirri 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 targets19 Jul 2027

Académico de Viseu rebuffed over Aribim Pepple

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Plymouth Argyle have kept their man, and Académico de Viseu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Académico de Viseu try to borrow Kermit Mahlangu

SuperSport United have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Nils Mortimer

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

Market19 Jul 2027

The Mohammed Bouldini story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mohammed Bouldini signs something — a contract at Académico de Viseu or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Simão Silva asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

44 Edition

The Académico de Viseu Chronicle

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout31 May 2027

André Ceitil says Académico de Viseu 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.

Squad31 May 2027

A falling-out at Académico de Viseu

André Clovis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad31 May 2027

Denis Guţu is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad31 May 2027

A move Sieb Jongens would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sieb Jongens is living that version at Académico de Viseu, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad31 May 2027

A row about effort at Académico de Viseu

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

The dugout31 May 2027

No hiding place for Bruno Pirri

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

Market31 May 2027

Académico de Viseu buy the years ahead of Sieb Jongens

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market31 May 2027

Tomás Silva returns from a loan that gave him nothing

3 appearances and 0 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.

Market31 May 2027

The Valery talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Académico de Viseu know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

40 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 May 2027

Lars Unnerstall 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 Twente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 May 2027

A row about effort at Twente

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

The dugout3 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Rayan Taouil

“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.

Squad3 May 2027

Hicham El Majhed 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 Twente know it.

Loan watch3 May 2027

Naci Ünüvar keeps scoring at Heracles

34 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Market3 May 2027

The Daan Rots question follows Twente around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daan Rots’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout3 May 2027

The manager makes Ricky van Wolfswinkel a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Twente. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout3 May 2027

Deacon van der Klaauw 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 Twente, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market3 May 2027

Sieb Jongens leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Sieb Jongens leaves Twente the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief