Guus Timber

Central Defender - Utrecht U18
5 May 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Guus Timber

8 Edition

The Utrecht Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Victor Jensen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Marius Broholm at 21 — 8.53

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marius Broholm did not need any: 8.53, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Vasilis Barkas 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 Utrecht this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Utrecht get the job done against Vitesse

A 1‑0 win over Vitesse, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Souffian El Karouani

Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Utrecht lose Guus Timber

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch

Mees Eppink counts the days

“I watch every Utrecht game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Vitesse runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Utrecht pick somebody else ahead of Matisse Didden

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Siebe Horemans

Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Utrecht Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vasilis Barkas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vasilis Barkas commits to Utrecht for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Utrecht

Vasilis Barkas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Utrecht sell Kevin Gadellaa for $750.0K

Kevin Gadellaa has left for Willem II in a $750.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Utrecht

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.

Squad

Yoann Cathline 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.

Market

Utrecht promote Wout Babel from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wout Babel has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief