The De Graafschap Post
Squad19 Jul 2027
Mohamed Bakhkhach damages knee ligaments — 61 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 61 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market19 Jul 2027
Nolan Martens 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 The request is on a desk at De Graafschap, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Karst de Leeuw due for a De Graafschap medical
Everything agreed with Willem II, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Ties Wieggers frozen out at De Graafschap
This is not rotation. Ties Wieggers has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at De Graafschap is pretending otherwise.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Reuven Niemeijer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at De Graafschap this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Too dear: De Graafschap walk away from Duke Verduin
$53.0K was the most the club would pay and Zwolle were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at De Graafschap training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahim El Kadiri 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Marten Depay joins the De Graafschap first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marten Depay is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2027
De Graafschap promote Luuk Frimpong from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luuk Frimpong 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 One of our own: Wesley Blind joins the De Graafschap first team
- Transfer targets De Graafschap try to borrow Yacqub Finey
- Squad De Graafschap are still strangers to each other