The NEC Chronicle
Market16 Aug 2027
Roda join the queue for Dylan Vente
Add another name to the list: Roda have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dylan Vente. The answer from NEC has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Ryan Flamingo is a medical away from NEC
The deal with PSV 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at NEC
Jerry St. Juste 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Oscar Gloukh falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
NEC rebuffed over Gjivai Zechiël
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Feyenoord have kept their man, and NEC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match14 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for NEC against Groningen
0‑2 to Groningen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market16 Aug 2027
Denzel Klaassen steps up from the NEC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denzel Klaassen 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Memphis Simons steps up from the NEC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Memphis Simons 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 Patrick De Vrij steps up from the NEC academy
- Boardroom NEC let a promise lapse
- Squad “I want to play”: Guus Til speaks