Sam de Laat

Central Midfielder - Emmen
21 Nov 2027
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Marked for Sam de Laat

48 Edition

The Emmen Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market28 Jun 2027

Luca Denk hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Emmen can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

An offer of $2.0M for Siebe Horemans

Emmen have gone to Utrecht with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Real improvement from Jermain Fernandes at Emmen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jermain Fernandes is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market28 Jun 2027

Sam de Laat is a Emmen player

The fee is $240.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. NEC drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Emmen rebuffed over Crysencio Summerville

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

Squad28 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Emmen

Roy Kortsmit 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.

Market28 Jun 2027

Eyes on Remiyan Muthuccumaru again

The phone has started ringing about Remiyan Muthuccumaru again, and this time the name on the line is Fortuna Sittard. Emmen are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words at Emmen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alaa Bakir 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.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

A loan move for Tyrique Mercera is in the works

Emmen have made the call to Groningen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The NEC Chronicle

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

An offer of $5.4M for Tómas Johannessen

NEC have gone to AZ with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market28 Jun 2027

Thomas Ouwejan asks to leave NEC

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Delé Thomas is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Hidde Jurjus due for a NEC medical

Everything agreed with Groningen, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at NEC

Tjaronn Chery 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.

Market28 Jun 2027

Sam de Laat moves on

Emmen pay $240.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Too much change too quickly at NEC

8 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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Matteo Filorizzo 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.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Bryan Linssen 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 NEC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

47 Edition

The Emmen Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Freddy Quispel: 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.” Emmen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Emmen baulk at the price for Siebe Horemans

Utrecht wanted more than $2.0M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Sam de Laat is a medical away from Emmen

The deal with NEC is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market21 Jun 2027

Business is business: Koen Bucker goes

Heracles paid $120.0K and Emmen took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Volendam tell Emmen: Mees Hoedemakers 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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Roy Kortsmit 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 Emmen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Jan Doldersum signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jan Doldersum commits to Emmen for another 4 years.

Market21 Jun 2027

A long bet from Emmen on Timo Schreuder

He is 20, and nobody at Emmen signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

A loan move for Lovro Štubljar is in the works

Emmen have made the call to Groningen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

43 Edition

The NEC Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 May 2027

A fracture rules Jetro Willems out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason NEC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom24 May 2027

Sam de Laat has agreed to leave NEC for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad24 May 2027

Tempers go at NEC

Gonzalo Crettaz 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.

The dugout24 May 2027

Philippe Sandler 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 NEC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Loan watch24 May 2027

MVV Maastricht cannot leave Deveron Fonville out

37 starts and an average of 6.80. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.

Market24 May 2027

The Darko Nejašmić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Darko Nejašmić signs something — a contract at NEC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad24 May 2027

Adrian Blake 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 NEC that is a harder question to answer.

The dugout24 May 2027

The manager makes Emre Mor a promise

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

Squad24 May 2027

Mees Hilgers starts on the language

Two hours a week with a tutor, which is the least glamorous thing at NEC and the one that decides whether a foreign signing is still here in two years.

In brief