Will Aimson

Central Defender - Telstar
13 Apr 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Will Aimson

30 Edition

The Telstar Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Telstar

Position 18 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

A fracture rules Milan Wilson out for 47 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Telstar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Gerald Alders, 21, steals the show — 7.61

Marked 7.61 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A row about effort at Telstar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tyrese Noslin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Telstar come up short against Groningen

Groningen left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A falling-out at Telstar

Will Aimson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Antoine Lejoly

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Antoine Lejoly.

Squad

Daan Reiziger signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daan Reiziger commits to Telstar for another 3 years.

Player ratings

Patrick Brouwer was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Telstar pick somebody else ahead of Antoine Lejoly
  • Looking ahead A test against the best for Telstar
Back issues
29 Edition

The Telstar Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Telstar

Beaten 0‑4 by Utrecht, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Daan Reiziger stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Tyrese Noslin 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 Telstar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jeff Hardeveld

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jeff Hardeveld, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at Telstar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Brouwer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Inquest at Telstar

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

Luuk Klaassen answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Antoine Lejoly dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

Will Aimson is a square peg at Telstar

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

24 Edition

The Wigan Athletic Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Will Aimson 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 Wigan Athletic, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

CFR Cluj come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Wigan Athletic did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Jaouen Hadjam rejects the move

Wigan Athletic had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Brighton, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Boardroom

Wigan Athletic to lose Kai Payne for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Kai Payne has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market

Only the photograph left for Kai Payne

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kai Payne will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wigan Athletic the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Bradley Burrowes 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $19.0K for Andy Cook

Wigan Athletic have gone to Bradford City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Owen Beck

Wigan Athletic asked and Liverpool said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Lautaro Taboada 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 Wigan Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief