The Excelsior Gazette
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
Excelsior part company with Daley De Roon
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Niels van Soest
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Excelsior lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
Owen Van de Beek takes charge at Excelsior
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Răzvan Sava keeps Excelsior in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Joshua Mukeh says Excelsior went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market14 Aug 2028
Excelsior sign Tim Geypens for $1.3M
The paperwork is done: Tim Geypens joins from Emmen in a deal worth $1.3M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Tim Geypens arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Tim Geypens has, at Excelsior, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Thijmen Blokzijl 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
In brief
- Transfer targets CSKA Moscow tell Excelsior: Martín Pino is not for sale
- Market Excelsior promote Patrick Weghorst from within
- Market Teun Dumfries steps up from the Excelsior academy