The Dordrecht Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
The knee: Jamie Luca Kooymans out for 22 days
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dordrecht lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dordrecht rebuffed over Jordan Bos
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Feyenoord have kept their man, and Dordrecht go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Dordrecht
Lucas Woudenberg and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Dordrecht
4 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Timothy Fosu-Mensah 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tim Stengs steps up from the Dordrecht academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Stengs 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
Nathan Dijks steps up from the Dordrecht academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nathan Dijks 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
One of our own: Memphis Promes joins the Dordrecht first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Memphis Promes 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
Virgil Aké steps up from the Dordrecht academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Virgil Aké 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Jurre van Aken
- Squad Dordrecht lose Quenay Soewarto
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Dordrecht