The Utrecht Gazette
Market10 Apr 2028
Noah Ohio 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 The request is on a desk at Utrecht, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
Wessel Kooy says Utrecht 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.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Emmanuel Owen, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.86
A mark of 7.86 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Up for the corner, and Donny van de Beek delivers — 7.83
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Donny van de Beek scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market10 Apr 2028
Jerry St. Juste wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Utrecht
Jerry St. Juste 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.
Loan watch10 Apr 2028
15 clean sheets on loan for Kevin Gadellaa
30 appearances at Sparta Rotterdam and the goals have stopped going in. Utrecht lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Match8 Apr 2028
Utrecht get the job done against Groningen
A 2‑1 win over Groningen, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
One of their own: Emmanuel Owen
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Kaj Sierhuis
- Market Utrecht promote Cody Lang from within
- Market One of our own: Jasper Blind joins the Utrecht first team