The NEC Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$5.1M settles it between the clubs for Dylan Vente
Heerenveen have accepted the money. What NEC do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market10 Aug 2026
Feyenoord watching Gonzalo Crettaz
The interest is real enough to have reached print. NEC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Luka Kulenović
NEC asked and Heracles said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.0M for Tim van der Leij
NEC have gone to RKC Waalwijk with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
NEC go back to the board over Dylan Vente
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.9M — a club that wants Dylan Vente enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tjaronn Chery signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tjaronn Chery commits to NEC for another 2 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
NEC bid $270.0K for Joel Ideho
The offer went to Sparta Rotterdam this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at NEC
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Market NEC promote Arnaut Xavi Simons from within
- Market NEC promote Marten Gravenberch from within
- Market One of our own: Daley Klaassen joins the NEC first team