The Helmond Sport Chronicle
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Lennerd Daneels: 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.” Helmond Sport have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Aug 2027
3 goals for Lennerd Daneels
The match ball belongs to Lennerd Daneels, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market16 Aug 2027
Hugo Wentges asks to leave Helmond Sport
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Luca Oyen 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 Helmond Sport this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Helmond Sport
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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Helmond Sport make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Thomas Poll falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Door shut on Anthony van den Hurk
Helmond Sport asked and Roda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Lennerd Daneels in the eights
A performance of 9.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Arnaut Van Dijk joins the Helmond Sport first team
- Market Luuk Dijks steps up from the Helmond Sport academy
- Market Helmond Sport promote Memphis Klaassen from within