The NEC Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Groningen join the queue for Kodai Sano
Add another name to the list: Groningen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kodai Sano. The answer from NEC has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
NEC say no — this time
The offer from Feyenoord for Adam Tahaui was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tjaronn Chery signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tjaronn Chery commits to NEC for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tjaronn Chery 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 NEC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at NEC
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at NEC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bart Schenkeveld is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market10 Aug 2026
NEC promote Memphis Gravenberch from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Memphis Gravenberch has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Robin Strootman steps up from the NEC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robin Strootman 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Sami Ouaissa
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sami Ouaissa, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at NEC
- The terraces The stands have heard the Kodai Sano talk too