Wesley Dijks

Striker - Excelsior U18
29 May 2029
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The Excelsior Gazette

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match8 Nov 2028

The small margins put Excelsior out

Out, 0‑1 to Feyenoord, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Jetro Willems: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Excelsior have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Iman Griffith runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Nothing got past Kasey Bos

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Noah Naujoks 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Nov 2028

No hiding place for Calvin Raatsie

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Calvin Raatsie, and the manager let it.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Excelsior lose Wesley Dijks

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

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Noah Naujoks takes the honours

Marked 7.92 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Excelsior had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Derensili Sanches Fernandes keeps on missing

Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

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The Excelsior Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Aug 2028

Len Bakker keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Excelsior may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Noah Naujoks 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market14 Aug 2028

As if he never left: Tim Dumfries returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Tim Dumfries is a Excelsior player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market14 Aug 2028

Wesley Dijks comes home

The shirt still fits. Wesley Dijks is back at Excelsior, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market14 Aug 2028

Kenneth Bergwijn comes home

The shirt still fits. Kenneth Bergwijn is back at Excelsior, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market14 Aug 2028

Owen Berghuis comes home

The shirt still fits. Owen Berghuis is back at Excelsior, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

Derensili Sanches Fernandes in the eights

A performance of 9.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

One of those days for Yacqub Finey

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

A masterclass from Irakli Yegoian

Marked 8.16 — 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.

In brief