The ADO Den Haag Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$5.1M settles it between the clubs for Dylan Vente
Heerenveen have accepted the money. What ADO Den Haag do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market10 Aug 2026
Willem II come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ADO Den Haag did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
ADO Den Haag go back to the board over Dylan Vente
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.9M — a club that wants Dylan Vente enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jonas Jensen-Abbew stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jonas Jensen-Abbew and ADO Den Haag agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Chris-Kévin Nadje
ADO Den Haag asked and Feyenoord said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at ADO Den Haag
Matteo Waem and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Kenneth Brobbey joins the ADO Den Haag first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kenneth Brobbey is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rick Lang steps up from the ADO Den Haag academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rick Lang 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
Justin Blind steps up from the ADO Den Haag academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Justin Blind 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Jalen Hawkins
- Squad Words at ADO Den Haag training over how hard people work
- Squad ADO Den Haag are still strangers to each other