The Excelsior Gazette
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Irakli Yegoian says Excelsior 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Excelsior make their move for Corean Drost
$600.0K on the table at Zwolle. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Excelsior
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
At last: Excelsior win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Heracles. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Gyan de Regt 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 targets16 Aug 2027
Panathinaikos tell Excelsior: Anass Zaroury is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Irakli Yegoian
At 23 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Irakli Yegoian the difference as Excelsior beat Heracles
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Irakli Yegoian. 2‑0 against Heracles, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market16 Aug 2027
Robin Hateboer steps up from the Excelsior academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robin Hateboer 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
- Market One of our own: Patrick Depay joins the Excelsior first team
- Market One of our own: Nathan Berghuis joins the Excelsior first team
- Market One of our own: Denzel Bergwijn joins the Excelsior first team