The Fortuna Sittard Herald
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
- Market One of our own: Joel Simons joins the Fortuna Sittard first team
- Transfer targets Fortuna Sittard try to borrow Ilyas el Moussaoui
- The dugout Samuel Bastien gets it from the manager