Lars Unnerstall

Goalkeeper - Twente
16 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Lars Unnerstall

24 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Twente sell Taylor Booth for $6.9M

Taylor Booth has left for AZ in a $6.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Twente sell Thomas van den Belt for $4.5M

Thomas van den Belt has left for PSV in a $4.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sondre Ørjasæter

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Ramiz Zerrouki

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Twente against Ajax

0‑2 to Ajax, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Costly mistake from Lars Unnerstall

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Lars Unnerstall knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Sondre Ørjasæter

5 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Lars Unnerstall

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

Back issues
23 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bart van Rooij 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 Twente can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Lars Unnerstall

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Daouda Weidmann says Twente 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.

Market

Eyes on Taylor Booth again

The phone has started ringing about Taylor Booth again, and this time the name on the line is AZ. Twente are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Match

Twente see off De Graafschap

Three points for Twente, 3‑1 the final word against De Graafschap in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

One of those days for Daan Rots

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Sondre Ørjasæter

Marked 9.18 — 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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Twente come up short against Groningen

Groningen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom

95% of the income goes out in wages at Twente

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Lars Unnerstall lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Max Bruns

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

Player ratings

The one thing Wout Weghorst could not do

Shots: 13, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Squad

Arno Verschueren has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Twente lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

Player ratings

Sondre Ørjasæter leaves them behind him

Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

20 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Lars Unnerstall keeps Twente in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Max Bruns: 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Twente

Ramiz Zerrouki 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.

Player ratings

Taylor Booth in the eights

A performance of 8.96 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Sondre Ørjasæter in the eights

A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

19 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Thomas van den Belt puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Twente, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Bart van Rooij wants more than Twente are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Ramiz Zerrouki 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.

Match

PSV take the points off Twente

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson in the eights

A performance of 8.97 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

One of those days for Taylor Booth

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Wout Weghorst

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Stav Lemkin

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

Player ratings

Daan Rots runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

18 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Stav Lemkin

Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Arno Verschueren shuts the door

Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sondre Ørjasæter

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Dani Ojeda: 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.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Mees Hilgers

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Wout Weghorst 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.

Boardroom

107% of the income goes out in wages at Twente

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

Twente and Heerenveen cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Heerenveen came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

17 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Mathias Kjølø

Defensive actions: 36. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Taylor Booth puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Twente, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Mathias Kjølø says Twente 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Daan Rots

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Thomas van den Belt

Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

Twente get the job done against Vitesse

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Wout Weghorst

Marked 8.25 — 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.

Squad

Bart van Rooij knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Twente, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

16 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Twente through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Heracles, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Arno Verschueren

Defensive actions: 28. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Mathias Kjølø shuts the door

Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Daan Rots

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Maher Carrizo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.62, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Dani Ojeda

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

Squad

Bart van Rooij 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 Bart van Rooij trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Match

Twente and AZ cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. AZ came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

15 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Thomas van den Belt puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Twente, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Daan Rots runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Sondre Ørjasæter in the eights

A performance of 9.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Sondre Ørjasæter the difference as Twente beat Cambuur

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sondre Ørjasæter. 2‑1 against Cambuur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Costly mistake from Lars Unnerstall

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Lars Unnerstall knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Squad

No hiding place for Thomas van den Belt

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

Player ratings

Wout Weghorst keeps on missing

Shots: 15, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Squad

Taylor Booth has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Twente that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

13 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Arno Verschueren

Defensive actions: 32. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Taylor Booth puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Twente, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Sondre Ørjasæter runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Lars Unnerstall keeps Twente in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Ramiz Zerrouki 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Stav Lemkin

Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Daan Rots

Marked 9.08 — 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.

Match

Twente find a way past ADO Den Haag

ADO Den Haag made Twente work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Robin Pröpper unhappy with how he is being used

Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Robin Pröpper has let it be known that he does not like the way Twente are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.

In brief

11 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Twente against NEC

0‑1 to NEC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Daan Rots runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Mathias Kjølø

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

Player ratings

Off the pace: Taylor Booth

A mark of 5.13 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Squad

Mees Hilgers called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Twente that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

In brief

10 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Thomas van den Belt 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 Twente can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Daan Rots

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Sondre Ørjasæter

Marked 9.39 — 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.

Match

Twente find a way past Roda

Roda made Twente work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Taylor Booth

Marked 9.14 — 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.

Boardroom

169% of the income goes out in wages at Twente

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Kristian Nökkvi Hlynsson

Marked 8.52 — 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Robin Pröpper

“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.

In brief

9 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nothing got past Arno Verschueren

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sondre Ørjasæter

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Taylor Booth 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 Twente can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Maher Carrizo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Maher Carrizo the difference as Twente beat Heracles

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Maher Carrizo. 1‑0 against Heracles, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Mees Hilgers

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Marko Pjaca 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.

Squad

Maher Carrizo is off the mark for Twente

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

8 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Mees Hilgers shuts the door

Defensive actions: 33, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match

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.

Player ratings

Daan Rots runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Arno Verschueren

Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Stav Lemkin shuts the door

Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

7 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Twente's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Twente has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Wout Weghorst raises the bar for Twente

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Twente heard it as anything else.

Squad

No hiding place for Bart van Rooij

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Taylor Booth

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Twente and Ajax 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.

Squad

Wout Weghorst finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Twente have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

5 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Taylor Booth 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 Twente can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Ramiz Zerrouki 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.

Match

Twente come up short against Groningen

Groningen left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lars Unnerstall

“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 ratings

A masterclass from Daan Rots

Marked 8.88 — 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lynden Edhart

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Daan Rots is off the mark for Twente

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Lynden Edhart

Every debut is a small story about the future: Lynden Edhart, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Player ratings

The one thing Wout Weghorst could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

4 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Taylor Booth runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Twente against Utrecht

0‑1 to Utrecht, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Twente count the cost of losing Baran Büyükarslan

32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Twente sign Lynden Edhart, one for the future

Lynden Edhart is 20, and Twente have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Player ratings

Wout Weghorst keeps on missing

Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

3 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Daan Rots runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Wout Weghorst

“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.

Match

Feyenoord take the points off Twente

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

The one thing Wout Weghorst could not do

Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings

The one thing Taylor Booth could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

  • Squad Daan Rots has seen what the next man earns
  • Squad Somebody is after Daan Rots’s shirt
2 Edition

The Twente Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Thomas van den Belt 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.

Squad

Bart van Rooij signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bart van Rooij commits to Twente for another 5 years.

Squad

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Arno Verschueren

“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.

Market

The clock runs on Daan Rots's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

A long bet from Twente on Teun Dijks

He is 16, and nobody at Twente signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

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The Twente Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Taylor Booth 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.

Squad

Lars Unnerstall stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lars Unnerstall and Twente agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

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.

In brief