The Go Ahead Eagles Sentinel
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Go Ahead Eagles sell a favourite for $3.2M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Oskar Sivertsen was one of the reasons people came, and $3.2M does not replace that by itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
Go Ahead Eagles sell Oskar Sivertsen for $3.2M
Oskar Sivertsen has left for Utrecht in a $3.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.1M for Jordy Bawuah
Go Ahead Eagles have gone to PSV with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson and Go Ahead Eagles agree another 4 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Go Ahead Eagles
3 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Porto tell Go Ahead Eagles: André Silva is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cody Timber steps up from the Go Ahead Eagles academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cody Timber 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Nathan Xavi Simons joins the Go Ahead Eagles first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nathan Xavi Simons is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Jasper Strootman steps up from the Go Ahead Eagles academy
- Squad A falling-out at Go Ahead Eagles
- The dugout Stefán Ingi Sigurðarson asks for a word with the manager