The ADO Den Haag Chronicle
Market16 Aug 2027
Matteo Waem puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ADO Den Haag, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market16 Aug 2027
Sparta Prague come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ADO Den Haag did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Nigel Thomas says ADO Den Haag went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market16 Aug 2027
ADO Den Haag get their man
The chase for Kamarni Ryan ended with $3.4M changing hands and Crawley Town out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
ADO Den Haag tie Wesley Aké down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A falling-out at ADO Den Haag
Matteo Waem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at ADO Den Haag
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match14 Aug 2027
ADO Den Haag make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at ADO Den Haag training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victory Beniangba 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Kilian Nikiéma
- Market Patrick Blind steps up from the ADO Den Haag academy
- Boardroom ADO Den Haag let a promise lapse