The Twente Sentinel
Market19 Jul 2027
Bart van Rooij moves on
RKC Waalwijk pay $11.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Feyenoord tell Twente: Keisuke Osako 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Twente
Lars Unnerstall 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 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Twente
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Myron Boadu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market19 Jul 2027
Filip Thorvaldsen attracts admirers
The name of Filip Thorvaldsen has come up in conversations Twente were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market19 Jul 2027
Tim Hateboer steps up from the Twente academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Hateboer 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Georginio Gravenberch steps up from the Twente academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Georginio Gravenberch 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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Max Bruns gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Max Bruns is on it.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Thomas van den Belt knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Thomas van den Belt trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Crysencio Summerville
- Squad Younes Taha remains an outsider
- Match Continental football is in reach for Twente