The Helmond Sport Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Wycombe Wanderers come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Helmond Sport did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nicolas Verkooijen is a medical away from Helmond Sport
The deal with PSV is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kiyani Zeggen turns down Helmond Sport
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AZ keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Labinot Bajrami signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Labinot Bajrami commits to Helmond Sport for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Helmond Sport
Brian Koglin 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
Helmond Sport sell Alen Dizdarević for $510.0K
Alen Dizdarević has left for Sparta Rotterdam in a $510.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Helmond Sport
4 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Helmond Sport
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Poll was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Chris-Kévin Nadje
Helmond Sport 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Denzel Aké joins the Helmond Sport first team
- Market Guus Klaassen steps up from the Helmond Sport academy
- The dugout Thomas Poll knocks on the manager’s door