The Twente Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Rafik Guitane 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. Rafik Guitane is living that version at Twente, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market10 Aug 2026
KAA Gent come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Twente did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Twente training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bart van Rooij 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Twente promote Cody Dost from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cody Dost 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Cody Babel joins the Twente first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cody Babel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Twente promote Wesley Bergwijn from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wesley Bergwijn 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
- Boardroom Twente turn down the training-ground plan
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Rafik Guitane