The Vitesse Sentinel
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Vitesse run out of patience with Memphis Clasie
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Memphis Clasie clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Match7 Jun 2027
Vitesse are in real trouble now
Position 16, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market7 Jun 2027
Naoufal Bannis 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 Vitesse can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Crisis meeting at Vitesse
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Quincy Brobbey takes charge at Vitesse
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Nino Zonneveld at Vitesse
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nino Zonneveld is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Vitesse
Alexander Büttner 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Vitesse
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daley Blind was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Door shut on Brian Fernández
Vitesse asked and Blackburn Rovers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Robin Hateboer joins the Vitesse first team
- Market One of our own: Bas Simons joins the Vitesse first team
- Market Vitesse promote Marco Dost from within