Wouter Prins

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17 Edition

The Groningen Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match21 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for Groningen

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.

Market23 Nov 2026

Wouter Prins asks to leave Groningen

“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.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

David van der Werff says Groningen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market23 Nov 2026

Mitchel Bakker has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Groningen can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Mitchel Bakker 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 Groningen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match21 Nov 2026

Late, late show earns Groningen a point

Minute 91, against Fortuna Sittard, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Wouter Prins 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.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Jacob Ondrejka beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Loan watch23 Nov 2026

Lovro Štubljar has seen enough of VVV-Venlo

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Groningen, and 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Groningen Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Jorg Schreuders 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 Groningen can pretend not to have heard.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Groningen

Etienne Vaessen 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.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Groningen rebuffed over Vladislav Torop

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Groningen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Jacob Ondrejka

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Wouter Prins 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Groningen

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

A loan move for Yohei Takaoka is in the works

Groningen have made the call to Gamba Osaka. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Groningen try to borrow Gustaf Nilsson

Club Brugge have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Denzel Van de Beek on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Denzel Van de Beek after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief