The Twente Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Rafael Giraldo
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Twente have done the hard part with La Equidad, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market10 Aug 2026
Twente say no — this time
The offer from Heerenveen for Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Wout Weghorst 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 Twente hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bart van Rooij signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bart van Rooij commits to Twente for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lars Unnerstall 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 Twente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ramiz Zerrouki 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Sondre Ørjasæter gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
Donny Malen steps up from the Twente academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Donny Malen 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
Twente promote Patrick Weghorst from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Weghorst 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
- Squad Twente are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Bart van Rooij knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Twente