Ryan Simons

Defensive Midfielder - Heerenveen
8 Sep 2041
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758 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

4 Feb 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Feb 2041

Frenkie Xavi Simons damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Squad4 Feb 2041

Amir Ismaïl has been here 16 seasons

212 appearances across 16 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad4 Feb 2041

Siebe van Langen keeps Heerenveen in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market4 Feb 2041

Jasper Babel 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 The request is on a desk at Heerenveen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad4 Feb 2041

Tempers go at Heerenveen

Pavlos Pantelidis 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.

Player ratings4 Feb 2041

Nobody could get near Jasper Babel

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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734 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

20 Aug 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Aug 2040

A one-man rearguard from Siebe van Langen

There were 11 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.

Squad20 Aug 2040

Amir Ismaïl: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Heerenveen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match18 Aug 2040

A 2-goal lead gone for Heerenveen

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. AZ kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Heerenveen will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings20 Aug 2040

Raphael van Geelkerken, 33, rolls back the years — 7.97

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad20 Aug 2040

Tempers go at Heerenveen

Marcus Linday 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.

Market20 Aug 2040

Arnaut Dumfries is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Heerenveen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad20 Aug 2040

Ryan Simons is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings20 Aug 2040

Ninety minutes of Luka Robben at his very best

Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Heerenveen.

Match18 Aug 2040

Heerenveen and AZ take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

730 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

23 Jul 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Jul 2040

Pavlos Pantelidis 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 Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Jul 2040

Ryan Simons is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad23 Jul 2040

Amir Ismaïl falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief