The Twente Sentinel
Squad22 May 2028
Marko Pjaca damages knee ligaments — 93 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 93 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom22 May 2028
Twente are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad22 May 2028
Arno Verschueren says Twente 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.
Squad22 May 2028
The season belongs to Lars Unnerstall
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Twente have had the benefit of it.
Market22 May 2028
Only the photograph left for Reuven Niemeijer
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Reuven Niemeijer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Twente the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom22 May 2028
Twente to lose Sieb Jongens for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Sieb Jongens has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Twente
- Market Still no signature from Juan Dinenno
- Boardroom The Twente production line keeps running