Nathan Babel

Attacking Midfielder (R) - NAC Breda U18
5 May 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Nathan Babel

107 Edition

The NAC Breda Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Moussa Soumano says NAC Breda 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.

Match

No end in sight to NAC Breda's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at NAC Breda has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Home is on Tobias Lauritsen's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; NAC Breda are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at NAC Breda

Mohamed Nassoh 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at NAC Breda

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.

Squad

Words at NAC Breda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Greiml 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 targets

ADO Den Haag tell NAC Breda: Matteo Waem is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Mark Travers gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Cody Timber steps up from the NAC Breda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cody Timber 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.

In brief