The Excelsior Gazette
Market12 Jul 2027
Mats Deijl puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Excelsior, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Davy Klaassen due for a Excelsior medical
Everything agreed with Ajax, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market12 Jul 2027
Groningen join the queue for Casper Widell
Add another name to the list: Groningen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Casper Widell. The answer from Excelsior has not changed — yet.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Excelsior
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mats Deijl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
PSV tell Excelsior: Ruben van Bommel 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Yacqub Finey 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Jul 2027
One of our own: Georginio Strootman joins the Excelsior first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Georginio Strootman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Jul 2027
One of our own: Virgil Simons joins the Excelsior first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Virgil Simons is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
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In brief
- The dugout Simon Janssen knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Calvin Raatsie gets picked when it counts
- Squad Jerolldino Bergraaf has seen what the next man earns