Guus Babel

Goalkeeper - Zwolle U18
15 Jan 2031
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Guus Babel

159 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alseny Cissé damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Camilo Ordóñez asks to leave Zwolle

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Camilo Ordóñez says Zwolle went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Only the photograph left for Joppe Hakstege

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joppe Hakstege will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zwolle the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Jeroen De Vrij signs on for the long haul

Zwolle moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Jeroen De Vrij, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Squad

A falling-out at Zwolle

Jakub Moder and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Wesley Brobbey at Zwolle

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Wesley Brobbey is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Vitesse tell Zwolle: Amos Mpanzu is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Zwolle

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.

In brief

  • Match 3 matches without a goal for Zwolle
  • Squad Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work
  • Market Zwolle promote Guus Babel from within