The Utrecht Gazette
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Utrecht bid $25.9M for Steven Bergwijn
The offer went to Al-Ittihad this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
OH Leuven join the queue for Siebe Horemans
Add another name to the list: OH Leuven have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Siebe Horemans. The answer from Utrecht has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Michael Brouwer due for a Utrecht medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Utrecht
Gjivai Zechiël and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Siebe Horemans stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Siebe Horemans and Utrecht agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vasilis Barkas 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Bryan De Jongh for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Utrecht will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Vasilis Barkas 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Siebe Horemans
Still no offer on the table, and Siebe Horemans’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Utrecht and Victor Jensen
- Market Nordin Amrabat leaves for nothing