The Twente Sentinel
Market27 Mar 2034
Hugo Deenen hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Twente can pretend not to have heard.
Market27 Mar 2034
Hugo Deenen has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Twente they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout27 Mar 2034
Hamza Abdallah says Twente went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Fabio Miretti 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 Twente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Words at Twente training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sondre Ørjasæter 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.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Twente lose Bas Van Dijk
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Žan Kovačevič wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Twente know it.
The dugout27 Mar 2034
When it matters, Sondre Ørjasæter plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout27 Mar 2034
No hiding place for Mauro Lenaerts
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauro Lenaerts, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market The Sondre Ørjasæter talk will not go away
- The dugout Sam Cuntapay knocks on the manager’s door
- Match Twente in the hunt for Europe