The Cambuur Post
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Anger at Cambuur 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Cody Dijks breaks a bone — 16 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Paul Wanner, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83
A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Cambuur
Marcos Leonardo 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Cambuur
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
Words at Cambuur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wouter Goes 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.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Paul Wanner
At 21 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Patrick Dijks steps up from the Cambuur academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Dijks 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Cambuur promote Marco Simons from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marco Simons 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
- Market One of our own: Cody De Ligt joins the Cambuur first team
- Market Cambuur promote Cody Van Dijk from within
- Match Paul Wanner the difference as Cambuur beat Heerenveen