The Volendam Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Volendam bid $3.0M for Joel Ideho
The offer went to Sparta Rotterdam this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $2.5M for Tim van der Leij
Volendam have gone to RKC Waalwijk with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Volendam go back to the board over Jorthy Mokio
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.6M — a club that wants Jorthy Mokio enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Gustaf Nilsson turns down Volendam
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Club Brugge keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Volendam
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Trabzonspor tell Volendam: Benjamin Bouchouari 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bas De Jong steps up from the Volendam academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bas De Jong has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Jeroen Klaassen joins the Volendam first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jeroen Klaassen 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
Steven Depay steps up from the Volendam academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Steven Depay has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Volendam promote Tim Van Dijk from within
- Squad A row about effort at Volendam
- Squad Kayne van Oevelen signs a new deal