The Excelsior Gazette
Squad14 Aug 2028
The knee: Maximilian Brüll out for 15 days
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Excelsior lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Irakli Yegoian: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Excelsior have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Excelsior
Rayane Bounida and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Excelsior
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words at Excelsior training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Irakli Yegoian is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Excelsior rebuffed over Alexandre Penetra
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PSV have kept their man, and Excelsior go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Stijn van Gassel
“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.
Market14 Aug 2028
Calvin Raatsie attracts admirers
The name of Calvin Raatsie has come up in conversations Excelsior were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market14 Aug 2028
Excelsior promote Denzel Gravenberch from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Denzel Gravenberch 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.
In brief
- Market Excelsior promote Bas De Roon from within
- Market One of our own: Arnaut Brobbey joins the Excelsior first team
- Match Excelsior come up short against PSV