Guus Simons

Striker - De Graafschap
11 Nov 2026
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Marked for Guus Simons

14 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match28 Oct 2026

De Graafschap march on in the cup

Feyenoord are out and De Graafschap go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

A debut Guus Simons will not forget — 7.56

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.56 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A move Bright van Dijk 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. Bright van Dijk is living that version at De Graafschap, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Silvan Bröker: 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.” De Graafschap have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A falling-out at De Graafschap

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

Squad2 Nov 2026

Lynden Edhart is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. De Graafschap know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words at De Graafschap training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robin Schouten 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.

The terraces2 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Guus Simons

At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market2 Nov 2026

Talks stall between De Graafschap and Luca Everink

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

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The De Graafschap Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match12 Sep 2026

De Graafschap run riot against Jong Utrecht

5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Reuven Niemeijer scores twice — 8.06

Two goals and a mark of 8.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Jevon Simons, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.29

A mark of 8.29 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market14 Sep 2026

Guus Simons asks to leave De Graafschap

“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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ibrahim El Kadiri in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at De Graafschap this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Robin Schouten 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.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

De Graafschap rebuffed over Kamiel Van De Perre

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Union SG have kept their man, and De Graafschap go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

The window shuts on the Yannick Gerritsen deal

De Graafschap ran out of time with Twente. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Lynden Edhart

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

2 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

Stijn Bultman damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Bohdan Budko

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. De Graafschap have done the hard part with AZ, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Daniël Deen turns down De Graafschap

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Lynden Edhart stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lynden Edhart and De Graafschap agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at De Graafschap

Reuven Niemeijer 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Robin Schouten is a De Graafschap player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

De Graafschap bid $65.0K for Luc van Koeverden

The offer went to Den Bosch this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Robin Schouten 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Justin de Haas

De Graafschap asked and Valencia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief