Tim de Koning

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
4 Oct 2029
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90 Edition

The Groningen Courier

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Apr 2028

Giacomo Vrioni breaks a bone — 76 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad17 Apr 2028

A falling-out at Groningen

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

The dugout17 Apr 2028

Groningen keep their word to Dennis Man

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Tim de Koning signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tim de Koning commits to Groningen for another 4 years.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

Dennis Man has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Groningen will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad17 Apr 2028

A row about effort at Groningen

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

Market17 Apr 2028

The Brynjólfur Willumsson 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.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

David Min 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 David Min has written the date down.

Market17 Apr 2028

Groningen and Nils Eggens are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
89 Edition

The Groningen Courier

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Apr 2028

Giacomo Vrioni breaks a bone — 86 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match10 Apr 2028

Groningen are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 73 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market10 Apr 2028

Lovro Štubljar asks to leave Groningen

“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.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

Nils Eggens 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.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words exchanged at Groningen

Thijmen Blokzijl 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.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Tim de Koning gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tim de Koning has just signed for Groningen, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout10 Apr 2028

No hiding place for Jannes Wieckhoff

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

Squad10 Apr 2028

10 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.

Market10 Apr 2028

Groningen sign Tim de Koning, one for the future

Tim de Koning is 18, and Groningen have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief