The TOP Oss Post
Squad12 Oct 2026
31 days out for Don-Angelo Konadu after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. TOP Oss will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Shaqueel van Persie at TOP Oss
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Shaqueel van Persie is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at TOP Oss
Rui Mendes 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ilias Azaouagh gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ilias Azaouagh has just signed for TOP Oss, and for once the answer mattered.
Market12 Oct 2026
Jasper Babel steps up from the TOP Oss academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jasper Babel 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
TOP Oss promote Steven Wijnaldum from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Steven Wijnaldum has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
TOP Oss sign Ilias Azaouagh, one for the future
Ilias Azaouagh is 18, and TOP Oss have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Delano Vianello
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market12 Oct 2026
Jeffrey Sarpong brings the grey hairs TOP Oss lacked
At 38, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Sil Milder
- The dugout Julian Kuijpers knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Jong Utrecht