The Excelsior Gazette
Squad16 Aug 2027
Simon Janssen damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Cruel end for PSV as Excelsior pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Excelsior scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Both of them Esmir Bajraktarević's — 8.13
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Rhyan at Excelsior
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rhyan is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Casper Widell signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Casper Widell and Excelsior agree another 3 years.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Excelsior training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gyan de Regt 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Excelsior see off PSV
Three points for Excelsior, 2‑1 the final word against PSV in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Zach Booth
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.
In brief
- Market Excelsior promote Patrick Bergwijn from within
- Market One of our own: Owen De Ligt joins the Excelsior first team
- Market Excelsior promote Marco Berghuis from within