Dylan Vente

Striker - Heerenveen
19 Sep 2026
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Marked for Dylan Vente

5 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Aug 2026

Jermaine Rijssel 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 Heerenveen can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bernt Klaverboer moves on

Feyenoord pay $2.5M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Heerenveen

Joël Veltman was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market31 Aug 2026

Huesca join the queue for Raoef Assady

Add another name to the list: Huesca have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Raoef Assady. The answer from Heerenveen has not changed — yet.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Amourricho van Axel Dongen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Marcus Linday's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Joris van Overeem was the difference for Heerenveen

Marked 7.63. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Marcus Linday 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Maas Willemsen

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Willem II come back empty-handed

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ringo Meerveld signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ringo Meerveld and Heerenveen agree another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marcus Linday 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 Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Heerenveen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joël Veltman 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.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Heerenveen

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marcus Linday gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market10 Aug 2026

Heerenveen promote Kenneth Weghorst from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kenneth Weghorst has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

Joel Gakpo steps up from the Heerenveen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joel Gakpo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Heerenveen promote Patrick Stengs from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Stengs has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief