The Almere City Chronicle
Squad14 Aug 2028
The knee: Joyce Nsingi out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Almere City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Aug 2028
Nino Molenaar hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Almere City can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Lars de Wit due for a Almere City medical
Everything agreed with FC Eindhoven, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Almere City
Junior Kadile 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.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Almere City
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
A row about effort at Almere City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Aug 2028
Noah Bout’s goal not enough for Almere City
Noah Bout scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to ADO Den Haag, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Door shut on Aaron Seydel
Almere City asked and Groningen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Hamza el Dahri frozen out at Almere City
This is not rotation. Hamza el Dahri has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Almere City is pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Market Memphis Klaassen steps up from the Almere City academy
- Market One of our own: Ryan Strootman joins the Almere City first team
- Market Owen Wijnaldum steps up from the Almere City academy