Erick Sandoval

Striker - FC Eindhoven
27 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Erick Sandoval

106 Edition

The FC Eindhoven Gazette

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Zakaria Haddaoui 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 FC Eindhoven can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Akin Özcan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Akin Özcan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Eindhoven the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Mitchell van Bergen due for a FC Eindhoven medical

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

Transfer targets

Ties Wieggers turns down FC Eindhoven

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: De Graafschap keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Eindhoven

Dyon Dorenbosch 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 targets

An offer of $80.0K for Mick Venetis

FC Eindhoven have gone to Almere City 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.

Squad

Tyrese Simons stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tyrese Simons and FC Eindhoven agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Thijs Muller 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.

Transfer targets

FC Eindhoven rebuffed over Billy van Duijl

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

In brief

Back issues
98 Edition

The FC Eindhoven Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Dyon Dorenbosch out for 46 days

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

Market

Luca Plogmann asks to leave FC Eindhoven

“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.

Market

Terms done: Akin Özcan is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Almere City waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FC Eindhoven is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

FC Eindhoven turn down Vitesse for Thijs Muller

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

A move Erick Sandoval would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Erick Sandoval is living that version at FC Eindhoven, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Youri Regeer will not be coming to FC Eindhoven

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ajax is saying, and nobody at FC Eindhoven is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Dyon Dorenbosch signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dyon Dorenbosch and FC Eindhoven agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

FC Eindhoven make their move for Shunsuke Mito

$280.0K on the table at Sparta Rotterdam. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Eindhoven

Thomas Kok 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.

In brief