The Groningen Courier
Market21 May 2035
Kwame Tabiri has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Groningen they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 May 2035
Words exchanged at Groningen
Fabio Miretti 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.
Boardroom21 May 2035
Kwame Tabiri has agreed to leave Groningen for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 May 2035
A row about effort at Groningen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hasan Ayyildiz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 May 2035
Ryan Simons out for 39 days
The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Ryan Simons, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout21 May 2035
No hiding place for Tomasz Pieńko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomasz Pieńko, and the manager let it.
Market21 May 2035
Kwame Tabiri runs his contract down
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Groningen money.
Market21 May 2035
Still no ink between Groningen and Senne Steijlen
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Groningen, another week without a signature from Senne Steijlen.
Market21 May 2035
The Naj Lulić question follows Groningen around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Naj Lulić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Squad David Riegler remains an outsider
- The dugout Tristan Kuijsten knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Reef Sheratzky has been promised minutes