Raoef Assady

Striker - NEC
18 Jan 2027
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Marked for Raoef Assady

16 Edition

The NEC Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Nov 2026

Jerry St. Juste 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 NEC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A row about effort at NEC

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

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Bryan Linssen 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

A promise honoured at NEC

Something was said to Dylan Vente and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Market16 Nov 2026

NEC sign Raoef Assady, one for the future

Raoef Assady is 18, and NEC 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Tjaronn Chery has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at NEC 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

The formation has left Raoef Assady behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. NEC will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Luka Kulenović 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 Kulenović trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

Thomas Ouwejan goes back to face AZ

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Thomas Ouwejan’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and NEC needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Home is on Maarten Paes's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Heerenveen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Heerenveen

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Levi Smans

At 22 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Heerenveen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus Linday 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Marcus Linday is still paying for one afternoon at Heerenveen

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

When it matters, Manfred Ugalde 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Marko Farji 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 Marko Farji trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Andries Noppert

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

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

A reunion for Remco Balk

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Groningen in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief