The Utrecht Gazette
Squad19 Nov 2035
Jamie Schuldes damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.
Match17 Nov 2035
Utrecht tear Heracles apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Heracles, and it could have been more.
Squad19 Nov 2035
A fracture rules Amin Ajdiri out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Utrecht will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Nov 2035
Quincy Hateboer 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 Utrecht can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Nov 2035
Utrecht make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Utrecht have 3 straight wins of it.
Market19 Nov 2035
Only the photograph left for Arnaut Van Dijk
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Arnaut Van Dijk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Utrecht the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Nov 2035
Tempers go at Utrecht
Vasilis Barkas 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.
Squad19 Nov 2035
Words at Utrecht training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siebe Horemans 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.
Player ratings19 Nov 2035
Björn Menzo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings Ángel Alarcón was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Yoann Cathline
- Market Still no signature from Melih Junuzov