The Dordrecht Herald
Squad16 Nov 2026
Said Bakari damages knee ligaments — 114 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 114 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad16 Nov 2026
51 days out for Joshua Pynadath after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dordrecht will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Dordrecht
Thijs Kraaijeveld and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nick Venema 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Jurre van Aken
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Noah Bischof story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Noah Bischof signs something — a contract at Dordrecht or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Tim Coremans asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Joseph Amuzu has been promised minutes
- Looking ahead Dordrecht host MVV Maastricht
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Soufiane Hetli