The Heerenveen Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Heerenveen turn down ADO Den Haag for Dylan Vente
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Heerenveen walk away from Maarten Paes
$5.2M was the most the club would pay and Ajax were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Heerenveen rebuffed over Gonzalo Crettaz
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NEC have kept their man, and Heerenveen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Heerenveen go back to the board over Maarten Paes
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.6M — a club that wants Maarten Paes enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ringo Meerveld signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ringo Meerveld and Heerenveen agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ringo Meerveld 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 Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $160.0K for Tómas Johannessen
Heerenveen have gone to AZ with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Heerenveen
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market10 Aug 2026
Heerenveen promote Robin Blind from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robin Blind has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Wout Babel joins the Heerenveen first team
- Market Heerenveen promote Bas Dumfries from within
- Squad Marcus Linday falls out with a teammate over standards