Bas Brobbey

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Heracles U20
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Marked for Bas Brobbey

30 Edition

The Heracles Sentinel

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Feb 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bas Brobbey

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

Match20 Feb 2027

Heracles taken apart

0‑3 to Vitesse, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match20 Feb 2027

No end in sight to Heracles's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Heracles has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Jeff Reine-Adélaïde 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 Heracles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Djevencio van der Kust 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.

Boardroom22 Feb 2027

Nobody left the Heracles dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Sava Čestić 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.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Tristan van Gilst runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market22 Feb 2027

Heracles put Thomas Bruns up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Thomas Bruns may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Heracles Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Feb 2027

Bas Brobbey damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Match13 Feb 2027

No end in sight to Heracles's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Heracles has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Heracles

Jeff Reine-Adélaïde 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.

Boardroom15 Feb 2027

Heracles agree a free transfer for Michael Dokunmu

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Words at Heracles training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djevencio van der Kust 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.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Erik Ahlstrand runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Tristan van Gilst was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad15 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Thomas Bruns

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Bruns, and the manager let it.

Match13 Feb 2027

Heracles share the spoils with AZ

A 1‑1 draw with AZ leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

28 Edition

The Heracles Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Feb 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bas Brobbey

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

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Nobody could get near Erik Ahlstrand

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market8 Feb 2027

Thomas Bruns is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Heracles is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

Thomas Bruns has agreed to leave Heracles 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.

Match6 Feb 2027

3 matches without a goal for Heracles

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Yojan Garcés 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 Heracles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market8 Feb 2027

Joel Gakpo steps up from the Heracles academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joel Gakpo 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.

Market8 Feb 2027

One of our own: Arnaut De Jong joins the Heracles first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Arnaut De Jong is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at Heracles training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Ahlstrand 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.

In brief