Patrick Van de Beek

Right Midfielder - De Graafschap
16 Jan 2033
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327 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

1 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Nov 2032

Thomas Ouwejan damages knee ligaments — 122 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 122 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.

Squad1 Nov 2032

A one-man rearguard from Sep van der Heijden

There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The terraces1 Nov 2032

Anger at De Graafschap spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match27 Oct 2032

The small margins put De Graafschap out

Out, 1‑2 to Ajax, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Boardroom1 Nov 2032

The scrutiny sharpens at De Graafschap

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at De Graafschap is running low.

Squad1 Nov 2032

Ibrahim El Kadiri 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 De Graafschap this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings1 Nov 2032

Patrick Van de Beek runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market1 Nov 2032

Akin Özcan told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Akin Özcan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at De Graafschap.

Match30 Oct 2032

Akin Özcan the difference as De Graafschap beat VVV-Venlo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Akin Özcan. 1‑0 against VVV-Venlo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

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319 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

6 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces6 Sep 2032

Supporters organise against the De Graafschap board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market6 Sep 2032

Savaş Ala 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 De Graafschap, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom6 Sep 2032

Window shuts: 20 in, 26 out at De Graafschap

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 20 arrived, 26 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad6 Sep 2032

Ibrahim El Kadiri 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 De Graafschap this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad6 Sep 2032

Reuven Niemeijer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Reuven Niemeijer and De Graafschap agree another 2 years.

Boardroom6 Sep 2032

The owner puts $541.9K into De Graafschap

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2032

Dordrecht tell De Graafschap: Niels Martens 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.

Squad6 Sep 2032

A row about effort at De Graafschap

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jacques Ekolowa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom6 Sep 2032

De Graafschap are $41.8M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

In brief