The Heerenveen Courier
Market16 Aug 2027
Terms done: Manfred Ugalde is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Porto waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Heerenveen is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
A brace, and Manfred Ugalde takes the afternoon — 8.87
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Manfred Ugalde provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match14 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Heerenveen
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Owen Pleijsier: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Heerenveen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Home is on Maarten Paes's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Heerenveen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Manfred Ugalde 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
8 academy graduates step up at Heerenveen
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Heerenveen rebuffed over Gustaf Nilsson
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing Genk have kept their man, and Heerenveen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Maarten Paes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maarten Paes, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings Oliver Edvardsen beats them one at a time
- Market Justin Dost steps up from the Heerenveen academy
- Market Nathan Timber steps up from the Heerenveen academy