The NEC Chronicle
Squad15 Feb 2027
Eli Dasa damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Eli Dasa asks to leave NEC
“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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at NEC
Jerry St. Juste and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Dylan Vente 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 targets15 Feb 2027
TSG Hoffenheim tell NEC: Mats Rots 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Luuk Dumfries steps up from the NEC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luuk Dumfries 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Guus Strootman joins the NEC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guus Strootman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Feb 2027
One of our own: Georginio Clasie joins the NEC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Georginio Clasie is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match13 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for NEC against ADO Den Haag
0‑1 to ADO Den Haag, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Virgil Misidjan
- The dugout Steven Stengs faces the questions
- The dugout When it matters, Tjaronn Chery plays