The Sparta Rotterdam Chronicle
Transfer targets14 Jun 2032
An offer of $6.1M for Gustav Isaksen
Sparta Rotterdam have gone to PSV with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market14 Jun 2032
Denzel Kuijpers puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sparta Rotterdam, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Patrick Berg 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 Sparta Rotterdam this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2032
Sparta Rotterdam baulk at the price for Luuk Beekman
Almere City wanted more than $620.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2032
Utrecht tell Sparta Rotterdam: Fabian de Keijzer 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 dugout14 Jun 2032
Denzel Kuijpers frozen out at Sparta Rotterdam
This is not rotation. Denzel Kuijpers has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Sparta Rotterdam is pretending otherwise.
Market14 Jun 2032
Jaydion Polonius moves on
Twente pay $220.0K, 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.
Squad14 Jun 2032
A row about effort at Sparta Rotterdam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobias Sommer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Jun 2032
Wages eat 113% of everything Sparta Rotterdam earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Squad Teun Hateboer signs a new deal
- The dugout Jasper Meijster is still paying for one afternoon at Sparta Rotterdam
- Transfer targets Sparta Rotterdam ask about Martin Henrion