The Vitesse Sentinel
Market18 Aug 2036
Terms done: Niklas Pyyhtiä is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and NEC waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Vitesse is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market18 Aug 2036
Juanma Herzog has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Vitesse they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market18 Aug 2036
Stephen Mfuni arrives at Vitesse as the heir apparent
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Stephen Mfuni is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Market18 Aug 2036
Amourricho van Axel Dongen 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 Vitesse can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets18 Aug 2036
Vitesse rebuffed over Arthur Avom Ebong
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Vitesse go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Aug 2036
Words exchanged at Vitesse
Gustav Isaksen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets18 Aug 2036
Jan Virgili will not be coming to Vitesse
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Feyenoord is saying, and nobody at Vitesse is enjoying the guessing.
The terraces18 Aug 2036
The town asked, and Vitesse paid $18.8M
Stephen Mfuni was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $18.8M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Squad18 Aug 2036
Words at Vitesse training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander De Ridder 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.
In brief
- Squad Vitesse lose Tim Timber
- The dugout No hiding place for Rayan Zekri
- Squad No place for Kenneth Hateboer in the new shape