The NEC Chronicle
Squad14 Aug 2028
A move Elyèss Dao would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Elyèss Dao is living that version at NEC, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market14 Aug 2028
Mike Havekotte 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 The request is on a desk at NEC, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Ties Wieggers says NEC 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.
Match12 Aug 2028
5 matches without a win for NEC
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around NEC are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Aug 2028
NEC spend $1.0M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $1.0M has been paid because Elyèss Dao is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Alexander Lind due for a NEC medical
Everything agreed with FC Nordsjaelland, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Gonzalo Crettaz 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 NEC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
6 academy graduates step up at NEC
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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A row about effort at NEC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philippe Sandler was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Match 3 matches without a goal for NEC
- Transfer targets NEC rebuffed over Bendegúz Kovács
- Market Jasper Babel steps up from the NEC academy