The Telstar Herald
Match18 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Telstar
Position 18 and 14 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match16 Jan 2027
Telstar taken apart
0‑4 to PSV, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad18 Jan 2027
9 saves: Yanick van Osch was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Rayyan Koubini: 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.” Telstar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Telstar
Mohamed Bakhkhach 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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Denzel Eijken will join Telstar for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Denzel Eijken has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Telstar have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Door shut on Chuba Akpom
Telstar asked and Ipswich Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Telstar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seb Huntelaar 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Joy Manana signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joy Manana and Telstar agree another 4 years.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Sander Sybrandy
- Boardroom Inquest at Telstar
- The dugout Ryan Frimpong: “No excuses”