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The De Graafschap Post

20 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 Dec 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Ouwejan

73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. De Graafschap lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match18 Dec 2032

Ibrahim El Kadiri leads the rout of Emmen

3‑0, and Ibrahim El Kadiri took the headlines on an afternoon when everything De Graafschap tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad20 Dec 2032

Sep van der Heijden stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings20 Dec 2032

Dylan Bronn, 37, rolls back the years — 7.81

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout20 Dec 2032

Patrick Fuchs says De Graafschap went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad20 Dec 2032

Ibrahim El Kadiri 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 De Graafschap this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 Dec 2032

Djimiro Pietersz 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.

Match18 Dec 2032

De Graafschap end the wait against Emmen

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Boardroom20 Dec 2032

De Graafschap cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

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The De Graafschap Post

25 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Oct 2032

Thomas Ouwejan damages knee ligaments — 129 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

Patrick Fuchs keeps the receipts

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

Squad25 Oct 2032

A falling-out at De Graafschap

Ibrahim El Kadiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad25 Oct 2032

De Graafschap count the cost of losing Milan Hoek

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match23 Oct 2032

A bad afternoon for De Graafschap against Jong Ajax

1‑2 to Jong Ajax, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad25 Oct 2032

A row about effort at De Graafschap

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djimiro Pietersz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom25 Oct 2032

De Graafschap cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

Erik Hedenquist gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout25 Oct 2032

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

In brief