The Groningen Courier
Squad14 Jul 2031
The knee: Kamil Jóźwiak out for 68 days
68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Groningen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Jul 2031
David van der Werff hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Groningen can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Jul 2031
Luuk Verheij has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Groningen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Words exchanged at Groningen
Etienne Vaessen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets14 Jul 2031
Groningen rebuffed over Rick De Ligt
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PSV have kept their man, and Groningen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Words at Groningen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduard Spertsyan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market14 Jul 2031
Sebastiaan Hagedoorn attracts admirers
The name of Sebastiaan Hagedoorn has come up in conversations Groningen were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market14 Jul 2031
Groningen and Lévi Ntumba are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Patrick Malen signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Malen and Groningen agree another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Valentin Vidal knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Frank Stople has been promised minutes
- Boardroom Groningen keep producing them