The Heerenveen Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
PSV watching Ringo Meerveld
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Heerenveen have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Heerenveen go back to the board over Maarten Paes
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.6M — a club that wants Maarten Paes enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Romeo Vermant due for a Heerenveen medical
Everything agreed with Club Brugge, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ringo Meerveld signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ringo Meerveld and Heerenveen agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ringo Meerveld 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 Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Remco Balk would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Remco Balk is living that version at Heerenveen, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market10 Aug 2026
NEC are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Heerenveen will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Heerenveen
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market10 Aug 2026
Heerenveen promote Ryan Malen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ryan Malen 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
- Market Heerenveen promote Steven Berghuis from within
- Squad Marcus Linday falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout Jacob Trenskow asks for a word with the manager