Joel Van Dijk

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Twente U18
26 Aug 2027
Thursday
Process

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The Twente Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bart van Rooij signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bart van Rooij commits to Twente for another 5 years.

Squad

Lars Unnerstall 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 Twente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Twente

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Bart van Rooij

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

One of our own: Ryan Hateboer joins the Twente first team

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

Market

Twente promote Robin Weghorst from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robin Weghorst 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.

In brief