The VVV-Venlo Post
Match19 Jul 2032
VVV-Venlo sink to position 19
28 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market19 Jul 2032
Joaquín González puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at VVV-Venlo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Tempers go at VVV-Venlo
Hobie Verhulst 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.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Tobías Bovone 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 targets19 Jul 2032
VVV-Venlo rebuffed over Denilho Cleonise
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Twente have kept their man, and VVV-Venlo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Andrew Dallas stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrew Dallas and VVV-Venlo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Jorge Colmán is slowing down
At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
A loan move for Rayan Boulahrouz is in the works
VVV-Venlo have made the call to Feyenoord. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market19 Jul 2032
The Joel van den Berg story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Joel van den Berg signs something — a contract at VVV-Venlo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Nick Huls a promise
- The dugout Agus Mahendra knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Kenneth Strootman leaves for nothing