Bas Blind

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
3 Feb 2029
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57 Edition

The Fortuna Sittard Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market30 Aug 2027

$28.2M — a new record at Fortuna Sittard

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Squad30 Aug 2027

The knee: Bas Blind out for 21 days

21 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.

Match28 Aug 2027

Fortuna Sittard taken apart

0‑3 to Twente, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Kiyani Zeggen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fortuna Sittard have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market30 Aug 2027

Yassin Oukili 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 Fortuna Sittard can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces30 Aug 2027

$28.2M for Dennis Man, and Fortuna Sittard supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Dennis Man from PSV for $28.2M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad30 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Fortuna Sittard

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mees Hilgers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Jasper Dahlhaus 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 Fortuna Sittard this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2027

Twente tell Fortuna Sittard: Yahia Fofana 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.

In brief

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45 Edition

The Fortuna Sittard Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Jun 2027

Yassin Oukili asks to leave Fortuna Sittard

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Fortuna Sittard count the cost of losing Mattijs Branderhorst

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Kiyani Zeggen is a medical away from Fortuna Sittard

The deal with AZ is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Mattijs Branderhorst signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mattijs Branderhorst and Fortuna Sittard agree another 2 years.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Fortuna Sittard

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mees Hilgers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Fortuna Sittard

Edouard Michut 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.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Fortuna Sittard rebuffed over Jakob Breum

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Fortuna Sittard go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market7 Jun 2027

Fortuna Sittard promote Calvin De Ligt from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Calvin De Ligt 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.

Market7 Jun 2027

Bas Blind steps up from the Fortuna Sittard academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bas Blind 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