Danilo van Roekel

Central Defender - Roda
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Danilo van Roekel

50 Edition

The Roda Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Excelsior come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Roda did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Nick Twisk puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Roda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Roda get their man

The chase for Ibrahim Cissoko ended with $2.3M changing hands and Zwolle out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets

Roda make their move for Maxence Rivera

$1.4M on the table at Heerenveen. 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

Words exchanged at Roda

Dario Van Den Buijs 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.

Squad

A move Danilo van Roekel 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. Danilo van Roekel is living that version at Roda, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces

The town asked, and Roda paid $2.3M

Ibrahim Cissoko was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $2.3M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Transfer targets

Roda rebuffed over Jasper Cillessen

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

Squad

Words at Roda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorrit Smeets 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.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The ADO Den Haag Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Justin Dost damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

ADO Den Haag put Wout Clasie on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

ADO Den Haag turn down Kayserispor for Jesse Bal

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

Market

Evan Rottier puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ADO Den Haag, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

The step up is real for Kilian Nikiéma

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Boardroom

ADO Den Haag to lose Danilo van Roekel for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Danilo van Roekel has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Jan Žambůrek 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 ADO Den Haag this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

ADO Den Haag agree a free transfer for Dylano van Niftrik

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dória

ADO Den Haag asked and Juventus said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief