The Utrecht Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $9.4M for Givairo Read
Utrecht have gone to Feyenoord 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Zidane Iqbal is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Vitesse waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Utrecht is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Utrecht
Marius Broholm and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Victor Jensen attracts admirers
The name of Victor Jensen has come up in conversations Utrecht were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
2 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Georginio Malen steps up from the Utrecht academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Georginio 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
One of our own: Bas Dumfries joins the Utrecht first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bas Dumfries is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Ángel Alarcón 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.
In brief
- The dugout Vasilis Barkas asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Vasilis Barkas has seen what the next man earns
- Squad Arthur Zagré remains an outsider