The Fortuna Sittard Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
The knee: Luuk Koopmans out for 36 days
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Fortuna Sittard lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market10 Aug 2026
AZ come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fortuna Sittard did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Jaygo van Ommeren
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Fortuna Sittard have done the hard part with Utrecht, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
2 academy players handed senior numbers at Fortuna Sittard
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Sittard rebuffed over Kevin Felida
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Den Bosch have kept their man, and Fortuna Sittard go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Quincy Simons joins the Fortuna Sittard first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Quincy Simons 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
Fortuna Sittard promote Marco Xavi Simons from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marco Xavi Simons 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yassin Oukili stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yassin Oukili and Fortuna Sittard agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Fortuna Sittard
Yassin Oukili was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
In brief
- Transfer targets Fortuna Sittard ask about Gustaf Nilsson
- Transfer targets Fortuna Sittard ask about Oskar Pietuszewski
- Squad A row about effort at Fortuna Sittard