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Marked for Luka Robben

44 Edition

The Groningen Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout31 May 2027

Luka Robben says Groningen 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

Jacob Ondrejka 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 Groningen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market31 May 2027

Jerry van Wolfgang has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Groningen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad31 May 2027

Luka Robben signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luka Robben and Groningen agree another 4 years.

The dugout31 May 2027

When it matters, Thijmen Blokzijl 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.

Market31 May 2027

Jari Kolthof returns from a loan that gave him nothing

4 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.

The dugout31 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Kyano Doesburg

“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.

Squad31 May 2027

Words at Groningen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jerry van Wolfgang 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Brynjólfur Willumsson has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Groningen that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

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38 Edition

The Groningen Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Fofin Turay: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Groningen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Groningen

Jacob Ondrejka 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.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A row about effort at Groningen

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

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Mats Seuntjens gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Sven Bouland signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sven Bouland commits to Groningen for another 5 years.

Loan watch19 Apr 2027

Jari Kolthof has seen enough of Vitesse

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Groningen, and 4 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Jacob Ondrejka gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jacob Ondrejka is on it.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Luka Robben knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luka Robben trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market19 Apr 2027

The Jorg Schreuders talk will not go away

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

In brief

6 Edition

The Groningen Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Deadline beats Groningen to Diber Cambindo

The clock did what Leon would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 8 in, 7 out at Groningen

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Groningen

Romeo Vermant 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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Groningen baulk at the price for Julian Oerip

AZ wanted more than $190.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Groningen

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

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

AZ tell Groningen: Wassim Bouziane 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Dies Janse at Groningen

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad7 Sep 2026

8 new faces, and Groningen are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Groningen pick somebody else ahead of Mats Seuntjens

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief