The Excelsior Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gyan de Regt 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Miliano Jonathans
Marked 8.92 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Miliano Jonathans
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Szymon Włodarczyk
“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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Irakli Yegoian
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
Excelsior and PSV take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Szymon Włodarczyk could not do
- Squad Miliano Jonathans is off the mark for Excelsior
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Rick Meissen
- Market Excelsior pick up Daniël Deen for nothing