The Volendam Post
The terraces9 Oct 2028
Anger at Volendam spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Ryan De Roon damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
Jemairo Goodett says Volendam 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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Gibson Yah 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 Volendam this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Oct 2028
Ozan Kökçü wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Volendam hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
The terraces9 Oct 2028
The crowd has taken to Jesper Tielemans
At 22 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.
Match7 Oct 2028
Jesper Tielemans sends Volendam past VVV-Venlo
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jesper Tielemans’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Volendam.
Squad9 Oct 2028
A row about effort at Volendam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bilal Ould-Chikh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings9 Oct 2028
The afternoon belonged to Bilal Ould-Chikh
A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- The dugout Interim Coach has his say
- The dugout Jesper Tielemans gets it from the manager
- The dugout Joel Ideho knocks on the manager's door