Nathan Lefebvre

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Process

Marked for Nathan Lefebvre

121 Edition

The ADO Den Haag Chronicle

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Caleb Kramer: 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.” ADO Den Haag have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

ADO Den Haag make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now ADO Den Haag have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at ADO Den Haag

Sergiño Dest 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

ADO Den Haag count the cost of losing Georginio Timber

32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

ADO Den Haag get the job done against Cambuur

A 1‑0 win over Cambuur, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Donát Bárány in the eights

A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sam Kersten

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

Player ratings

Nigel Thomas was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Sergiño Dest has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at ADO Den Haag 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

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Looking ahead ADO Den Haag take on the side everybody is chasing
  • Squad No place for Nathan Lefebvre in the new shape
Back issues
120 Edition

The ADO Den Haag Chronicle

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Kelechi Idegwu sends ADO Den Haag through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Kelechi Idegwu obliged against Twente. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is ADO Den Haag.

Match

Kelechi Idegwu wins it after the whistle should have gone

94 minutes played. Kelechi Idegwu found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Twente went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

Both of them Kelechi Idegwu's — 8.87

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.87, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Joep Geneste asks to leave ADO Den Haag

“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

Only the photograph left for Somtochukwu Nwobodo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Somtochukwu Nwobodo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around ADO Den Haag the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at ADO Den Haag

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

Squad

Sergiño Dest 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.

Squad

A move Nathan Lefebvre 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. Nathan Lefebvre is living that version at ADO Den Haag, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces

One of their own: Maikey Houwaart

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief