The NEC Chronicle
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for NEC
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market25 Jan 2027
Isak Hansen-Aarøen agrees terms with Helmond Sport
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around NEC people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market25 Jan 2027
Thomas Ouwejan asks to leave NEC
“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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Henrik Udahl will not be coming to NEC
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at HamKam is saying, and nobody at NEC is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Noë Misumi has agreed to leave NEC for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at NEC
Luka Kulenović was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Too dear: NEC walk away from Roy Kortsmit
$57.0K was the most the club would pay and NAC Breda were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
NEC rebuffed over Matvii Ponomarenko
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and NEC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match23 Jan 2027
NEC come up short against Sparta Rotterdam
Sparta Rotterdam left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Gonzalo Crettaz
- Market Donny Frimpong steps up from the NEC academy
- Market Bas Stengs steps up from the NEC academy