The Heerenveen Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dirk Proper stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dirk Proper and Heerenveen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Heerenveen
Jacob Trenskow and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Heerenveen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ringo Meerveld is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
Almere City join the queue for Amir Ismaïl
Add another name to the list: Almere City have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Amir Ismaïl. The answer from Heerenveen has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Heerenveen has picked up the phone to Dirk Proper
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Heerenveen ask about Pau Ferrer
A loan enquiry to Ponferradina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Piet Scobel is in the works
Heerenveen have made the call to Nürnberg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Heerenveen are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Ringo Meerveld 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 Heerenveen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Heerenveen and Sam Kersten are talking past each other
- Market Mees Hilgers leaves for nothing