Bas Dost

Striker - Vitesse
2 Aug 2043
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bas Dost

843 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

22 Sep 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Nicolò Danilo Benatelli damages knee ligaments — 89 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 89 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Fabian Huetink out for 115 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vitesse will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

7 matches without a win for Vitesse

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Vitesse are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Diyae Jermoumi 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Vitesse training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Solomon Bonnah 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.

Match

Vitesse come up short against Groningen

Groningen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

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810 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

3 Feb 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Vitesse

Beaten 0‑5 by Ajax, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

A fracture rules Jort van de Glind out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vitesse will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

18 seasons of Marcus Steffen

274 appearances across 18 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Vitesse know what they have.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Vitesse boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Diyae Jermoumi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Diyae Jermoumi and Vitesse agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Andrik Markgraf 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Inquest at Vitesse

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Nino Zonneveld will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

Player ratings

Ilyas Benktib runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

794 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

14 Oct 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jort van de Glind breaks a bone — 130 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 130 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

4 matches without a win for Vitesse

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Vitesse are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Diyae Jermoumi 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Vitesse training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Solomon Bonnah 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Youri Regeer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Youri Regeer, and the manager let it.

Match

Vitesse are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Vitesse come up short against Willem II

Willem II left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Noah Tamsamani

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

The Vitesse production line keeps running

154 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

792 Edition

The Vitesse Sentinel

30 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jort van de Glind breaks a bone — 144 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 144 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Denzel De Vrij keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vitesse may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Diyae Jermoumi 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 Vitesse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bas Dost gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bas Dost has just signed for Vitesse, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

A bad afternoon for Vitesse against De Graafschap

2‑3 to De Graafschap, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nino Zonneveld

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief