The ADO Den Haag Chronicle
Squad1 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luuk Wouters
61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ADO Den Haag lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match27 Oct 2027
The cup run ends for ADO Den Haag
1‑3 against Heracles, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Levy Varisli out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason ADO Den Haag will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match30 Oct 2027
The wait goes on for ADO Den Haag
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market1 Nov 2027
Anton Shamin asks to leave ADO Den Haag
“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.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Cameron Peupion was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Tempers go at ADO Den Haag
Thijs van Leeuwen 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Bas Aké
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. ADO Den Haag will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages eat 101% of everything ADO Den Haag earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Matteo Waem
- The dugout Milan Hokke gets it from the manager
- Boardroom ADO Den Haag counting the cost