Bas Babel

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
19 Sep 2038
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579 Edition

The AZ Gazette

31 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match29 Aug 2037

Nobody wins at AZ

73 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match29 Aug 2037

33 unbeaten for AZ

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 33 matches without defeat is a foundation AZ did not have in the autumn.

Squad31 Aug 2037

A fracture rules Yoël van den Ban out for 113 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AZ will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market31 Aug 2037

AZ say no — this time

The offer from Willem II for Lewis Schouten 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.

Squad31 Aug 2037

Tempers go at AZ

Matěj Šín 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.

Market31 Aug 2037

Stijn Kuijsten 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 AZ can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2037

Twente join the queue for Bendegúz Kovács

Add another name to the list: Twente have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bendegúz Kovács. The answer from AZ has not changed — yet.

Squad31 Aug 2037

Patati 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.

Market31 Aug 2037

Bas Babel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AZ they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

Back issues
574 Edition

The AZ Gazette

27 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad27 Jul 2037

Quenten Attigah breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match27 Jul 2037

AZ are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 90 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market27 Jul 2037

Wout Weghorst asks to leave AZ

“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.

Squad27 Jul 2037

Peer Koopmeiners out for 38 days

The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Peer Koopmeiners, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad27 Jul 2037

Tempers go at AZ

Quenten Attigah 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.

Squad27 Jul 2037

Words at AZ training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patati 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.

Market27 Jul 2037

The Heracles deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Bas Babel reports back to AZ with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market27 Jul 2037

Wouter Goes attracts admirers

The name of Wouter Goes has come up in conversations AZ were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market27 Jul 2037

The Louis Munteanu conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Heerenveen will make the call about Louis Munteanu this week. AZ have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

  • Boardroom The AZ production line keeps running
  • Boardroom AZ board back the manager
573 Edition

The AZ Gazette

20 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad20 Jul 2037

Quenten Attigah breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market20 Jul 2037

Bendegúz Kovács 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 AZ can pretend not to have heard.

Squad20 Jul 2037

Tempers go at AZ

Matěj Šín 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.

Market20 Jul 2037

AZ turn down Roda for Adam Ouaziz

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad20 Jul 2037

Patati 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.

Market20 Jul 2037

Bas Babel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AZ they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief