Rick Simons

Goalkeeper - De Graafschap U18
6 May 2028
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The De Graafschap Post

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market4 Oct 2027

Levi Schoppema asks to leave De Graafschap

“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.

Match29 Sep 2027

De Graafschap beaten on the continent

2‑4 against AEK, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

No sign of nerves from Maher Carrizo at 21 — 7.78

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Maher Carrizo did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout4 Oct 2027

Levi Schoppema frozen out at De Graafschap

This is not rotation. Levi Schoppema has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at De Graafschap is pretending otherwise.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tempers go at De Graafschap

Sami Ouaissa 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.

Match29 Sep 2027

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about De Graafschap and AEK in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad4 Oct 2027

A row about effort at De Graafschap

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

Match2 Oct 2027

AZ take the points off De Graafschap

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout4 Oct 2027

Paul Reverson 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.

In brief

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58 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market6 Sep 2027

Milan Smits hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what De Graafschap can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout6 Sep 2027

Levi Schoppema frozen out at De Graafschap

This is not rotation. Levi Schoppema has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at De Graafschap is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Window shuts: 21 in, 31 out at De Graafschap

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 21 arrived, 31 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

The paperwork begins on Maher Carrizo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. De Graafschap have done the hard part with Ajax, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at De Graafschap

Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Ibrahim El Kadiri 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 targets6 Sep 2027

Ajax tell De Graafschap: Charlie Setford is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout6 Sep 2027

Lennart Stoll 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

De Graafschap count the cost of losing Rick Simons

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

In brief