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457 Edition

The Jong AZ Gazette

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market30 Apr 2035

Romain Jean-Baptiste has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jong AZ they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match28 Apr 2035

Whatever happens, Jong AZ do not lose

10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings30 Apr 2035

Marco Hateboer, 21, steals the show — 7.96

Marked 7.96 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match28 Apr 2035

Jong AZ hit back inside 1 minutes

FC Eindhoven held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Jong AZ answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Match28 Apr 2035

Jong AZ share the spoils with FC Eindhoven

A 1‑1 draw with FC Eindhoven leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout30 Apr 2035

Lequincio Zeefuik left out for tactical reasons at Jong AZ

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings30 Apr 2035

The chances came and went for Robin van Cruijsen

5 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Market30 Apr 2035

Owen Frimpong linked with a move away

The name of Owen Frimpong keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jong AZ say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad30 Apr 2035

The room hears from Reiss Nelson

“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Jong AZ squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.

In brief

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450 Edition

The Jong AZ Gazette

12 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market12 Mar 2035

Sil Swinkels is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Jong AZ is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings12 Mar 2035

The afternoon belonged to Sil Swinkels

A mark of 7.35, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout12 Mar 2035

No hiding place for Hilmar Karlsson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hilmar Karlsson, and the manager let it.

Player ratings12 Mar 2035

Marco Hateboer was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match10 Mar 2035

Point won or two lost for Jong AZ?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Fortuna Sittard? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Market12 Mar 2035

Finn van Breemen linked with a move away

The name of Finn van Breemen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jong AZ say nothing, which says plenty.

Market12 Mar 2035

The clock does Finn van Breemen’s negotiating for him

5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Jong AZ could ask drops and the wages Finn van Breemen can ask rise.

The dugout12 Mar 2035

Hilmar Karlsson does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Squad12 Mar 2035

“I want to play”: Virgil Dumfries speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

446 Edition

The Jong AZ Gazette

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market12 Feb 2035

Sil Swinkels is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Jong AZ is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market12 Feb 2035

Bas Janssen has said yes to De Graafschap

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Jong AZ have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market12 Feb 2035

The Feyenoord deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Finn van Breemen reports back to Jong AZ with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market12 Feb 2035

Jong AZ say no — this time

The offer from Vikingur for Hilmar Karlsson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match10 Feb 2035

A bad afternoon for Jong AZ against Jong PSV

1‑3 to Jong PSV, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match6 Feb 2035

Jong AZ get the job done against RKC Waalwijk

A 1‑0 win over RKC Waalwijk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings12 Feb 2035

A masterclass from Robin van Cruijsen

Marked 8.16 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match10 Feb 2035

Jong PSV end the Jong AZ run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Player ratings12 Feb 2035

Lequincio Zeefuik runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • Player ratings The cruellest goal, and it is Bas Lang's
  • Squad Words at Jong AZ training over how hard people work
  • Squad A ban for Sil Swinkels