The AZ Gazette
Market9 Aug 2038
AZ turn down Willem II for Isak Jensen
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Matěj Šín 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 AZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Aug 2038
Kenneth Depay asks to leave AZ
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market9 Aug 2038
Only the photograph left for Frenkie Gakpo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Frenkie Gakpo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AZ the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Kees Smit 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.
Squad9 Aug 2038
Cody Strootman is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.