Ryan De Roon

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Volendam U20
3 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ryan De Roon

115 Edition

The Volendam Post

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 terraces

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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

Back issues
114 Edition

The Volendam Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ryan De Roon damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Match

No end in sight to Volendam's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Volendam has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Volendam

Gibson Yah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Casper Staring raises the bar for Volendam

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Volendam heard it as anything else.

Match

A bad afternoon for Volendam against Willem II

1‑2 to Willem II, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gibson Yah

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Words at Volendam training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ozan Kökçü is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Loan watch

Senne Kroes wants to come home

“I did not go to Fortuna Sittard to sit and watch. I want to come back to Volendam and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief