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Marked for Márk Csinger

68 Edition

The Groningen Courier

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Nov 2027

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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Luka Robben is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Loan watch15 Nov 2027

Lovro Štubljar wants to come home

“I did not go to Emmen to sit and watch. I want to come back to Groningen and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 19 matches say the rest.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Marvin Peersman 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 dugout15 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of David van der Werff

“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.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

A promise honoured for Trivante Stewart

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Groningen told Trivante Stewart something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

Rick Karsdorp gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rick Karsdorp is on it.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Oskar Zawada still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Groningen would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market15 Nov 2027

Talks stall between Groningen and Márk Csinger

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The Groningen Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings5 Apr 2027

No sign of nerves from Dies Janse at 21 — 7.96

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dies Janse did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Groningen

Marvin Peersman 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.

Squad5 Apr 2027

The step up is real for Pharell Nash

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Thijmen Blokzijl 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 terraces5 Apr 2027

One of their own: Wouter Prins

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match3 Apr 2027

Groningen get the job done against Zwolle

A 2‑0 win over Zwolle, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings5 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Fofin Turay

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Quincy Bergwijn has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Quincy Bergwijn on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Jacob Ondrejka has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Groningen will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

35 Edition

The Groningen Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Márk Csinger: 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.” Groningen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Elvis van der Laan is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Brynjólfur Willumsson

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

Squad29 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Groningen

Chedi Afifeh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Tygo Land has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Groningen will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market29 Mar 2027

No place for Hidde Jurjus in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hidde Jurjus has his answer from Groningen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market29 Mar 2027

The Thijmen Blokzijl question follows Groningen around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thijmen Blokzijl’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2027

A reunion for Younes Taha

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Zwolle in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Marvin Peersman has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Marvin Peersman has written the date down.

In brief

11 Edition

The Groningen Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivan Laarman

17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Groningen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market12 Oct 2026

Marco Rente 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Tygo Land

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Groningen

Etienne Vaessen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Groningen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dies Janse was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

When it matters, Jorg Schreuders plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Marvin Peersman knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marvin Peersman trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Márk Csinger 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Thijmen Blokzijl question follows Groningen around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thijmen Blokzijl’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief