Max Bruns

Central Defender - Twente
26 Dec 2027
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Marked for Max Bruns

59 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match11 Sep 2027

The wait goes on for Twente

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson and Twente agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Twente

Lars Unnerstall 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.

Market13 Sep 2027

Twente may not be able to give Jerónimo Pourtau what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jerónimo Pourtau wants continental football; whether Twente can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Bart van Rooij 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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Taylor Booth has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Younes Taha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match11 Sep 2027

Twente come up short against Ajax

Ajax left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The terraces13 Sep 2027

Twente supporters have found a favourite in Jeremía Recoba

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jeremía Recoba has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market30 Aug 2027

Marko Pjaca asks to leave Twente

“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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Aymen Sliti: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Twente have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match28 Aug 2027

6 matches without a win for Twente

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Twente are no longer polite ones.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Twente

Lars Unnerstall 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Wout Weghorst

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

Squad30 Aug 2027

A late step up for Max Bruns

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

46 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Jun 2027

Marko Pjaca breaks a bone — 55 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Lars Unnerstall 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 Twente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words at Twente training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bart van Rooij 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.

Market14 Jun 2027

Twente sell Przemysław Tytoń for $200.0K

Przemysław Tytoń has left for Feyenoord in a $200.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Max Bruns has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

The terraces14 Jun 2027

Everybody has an opinion about Aymen Sliti

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief