Stefan Van Hattum

Striker - Free Agent
12 Feb 2028
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Marked for Stefan Van Hattum

62 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market4 Oct 2027

Tommy Bell is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Canterbury United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Canterbury United

Willem Ebbinge 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.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Bill Wood 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.

In brief

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58 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Sep 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jai Cacace

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Canterbury United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Remember the name: Stefan Van Hattum

He is 18, he is averaging 6.56, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Market6 Sep 2027

Tommy Bell has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Canterbury United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market6 Sep 2027

Stefan Van Hattum’s move to WaiBOP United falls through

The deal that would have taken Stefan Van Hattum to WaiBOP United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Canterbury United with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Jai McCowatt is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Canterbury United

Willem Ebbinge 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.

In brief