The De Graafschap Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
De Graafschap make their move for Youssef El Kachati
$3.7M on the table at NEC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Thijs Kraaijeveld turns down De Graafschap
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Feyenoord keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
De Graafschap rebuffed over Sam Lammers
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PSV have kept their man, and De Graafschap go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Arnaut De Vrij joins the De Graafschap first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Arnaut De Vrij is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Frenkie Weghorst steps up from the De Graafschap academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Frenkie Weghorst has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Memphis Malen steps up from the De Graafschap academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Memphis Malen has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
De Graafschap promote Owen Simons from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Owen Simons has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at De Graafschap
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jannes Wieckhoff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Joey Sleegers signs a new deal
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Milan Smits
- Transfer targets De Graafschap try to borrow Kevin Gadellaa