The Vitesse Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Naoufal Bannis 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Iman Griffith 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. Iman Griffith is living that version at Vitesse, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Vitesse
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad10 Aug 2026
José Luis Morales 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marcus Steffen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcus Steffen commits to Vitesse for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Denzel Dijks steps up from the Vitesse academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denzel 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.
In brief
- Market Jasper Timber steps up from the Vitesse academy
- Market Luuk Frimpong steps up from the Vitesse academy
- Market Vitesse promote Teun Clasie from within
- Boardroom Vitesse spend where nobody can see it