The Excelsior Gazette
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Excelsior
Brian Koglin 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Michael Dokunmu 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Brian Koglin 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Nacho Senar signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nacho Senar and Excelsior agree another 4 years.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Too much change too quickly at Excelsior
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Soufiane Hetli has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Excelsior 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.
In brief
- Looking ahead A test against the best for Excelsior
- The dugout Valentin Sulzbacher knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Noah Naujoks
- Loan watch De Graafschap cannot leave Casper Widell out