excelsior lost first match against rkc, so relegation can be possible

de graafschap had a draw first match against cambuur, also not a great start to promote/relegation play off

so excelsior relegated

de graafschap won and still has a chance


we get one promoted team at least in a RKC or Go Ahead

De Graafschap still fights for survival now against Sparta

I know that it's quite late to say this, but congratulations on Fortuna Sittard staying up Nicky, hopefully they can build on this and get better for next season.

yeah, it was a good result, just avoiding the play off for promotion/relegation while most expected them to relegate immediately


for next season there will be 2 immediate relegation spots, and 1 play off spot for that (like german bundesliga) our KNVB has said

Do you think that you can avoid the drop next season?

utrecht - Vitesse first match was 1-1 draw, tuesday is return and a decider who goes into european football


Mock, idk maybe if we do some interesting signings this summer, also who are additions for the team, i'm glad the coach is gonna do field work now (eijer left on Mutual decision bc of illness not being able to give his 100% for the club) so hofland will be assistant for whoever will be signed as head coach for next season

so far we got (managers)

ADO Den Haag - Alfons groenendijk

Ajax - Erik Ten hag

AZ - Arne Slot

Emmen - Dick Lukkien

Feyenoord - Jaap Stam

Fortuna Sittard - (TBA)

Groningen - Danny Buijs

Heracles - Frank Wormuth (GER)

Zwolle - (TBA)

PSV - Mark Van Bommel

Fc Twente - Gonzalo Garcia Garcia (ESP)

Utrecht - John Van den Brom

Vitesse - Leonid Slutskiy (RUS)

VVV - Maurice Steijn

Willem II - Adrie Koster


we're still waiting on promotion/relegation play off to be finished, and european play off of course, and then 2019/20 season preparations can begin

Sad to hear that about the Head Coach.

I wonder if you's should look at the Ajax and PSV youth squads and poach some of their players on loan.

yeah he has MS (a muscle disease) :(


going to ajax, asking to get perr schuurs back (if ajax doesn't use him anyway for their first team :oh: ) they bought him from us and never selected him for main team while we could've used him big time for our defence

rkc - go ahead a 0-0 draw


de graafschap won first match away in rotterdam against sparta with 1-2 so a good chance of them staying in for next season

RKC, Sparta promoted after their wins


RKC in a thriller away at go ahead, with a stunning 4-5 win (4-3 behind too, but equalizing and making the winner in extra time)


Sparta winning away against de graafschap with 0-2


:clap1: so 3 out, 3 in for us

now the preparation for 2019-20 season can begin :) also holiday time for most first team players

- PSV having huge interest in Rick Van Drongelen, the dutch defender, who now plays at Hamburger SV

as a replacement for the leaving defender Schwaab

PSV transfer in: Afellay


Fortuna Sittard, Sjors Ultee (Manager), and player transfers so far in: Patrik Raitanen (Liverpool Youth) and a Rasmus Karjalainen (RuPs)

2 finnish players, rasmus is a 7 time international with main finnish squad, and raitanen is a youth international

the new grass for the Fortuna stadium

jacky and vitali presentation in training camp hoenderloo

recap of the sensational surprise win over bayer leverkusen by Fortuna, a goal from newbie karjalainen :clap1:

and this weeks schedule for the Fortuna team, very very busy

here's the highlights of that leverkusen match btw

our new coach Ultee said ''we played as a team and that is why we won the match''


not to forget leverkusen being in champions league, so this is a good preparation en route to new season



if i could make my own Fortuna starting 11 it would look like

Goal: Koselev

Defence: Passlack, Raitanen, Dammers, Essers

Midfield: Diemers, Smeets, Carbonell, possibly Ledley or Rodriguez (depending who is signed as experienced midfielder)

attack: Dianessy, Karjalainen

subs

Goal: Jug

Defence: Ninaj, Mica, Ciranni

Midfield: Ioannidis, Ciss, Malsa, Ugur

Attack: Damascan, Dobos, Zeka

and another signing for Fortuna

Bassala Sambou from everton, 21 yr german-english attacker, a good backup attacker and a surprise signing, since there also was interest from championship and clubs in germany

and Sambou comes in handy now dianessy is again injured

and they are still fighting to sign up Joe Ledley

the beginning of the 2019-20 football season tonight for us
 

with the dutch super cup, in half an hour from now

Ajax vs PSV

:dance2:

1st minute 1-0 ajax goal by dolberg

:laugh3: psv with a c-squad not caring about this trophy :laugh3:

first match of season last night

our Brabanders Willem II won away in Zwolle against PEC with 1-3 :clap1:


my team Fortuna must play tomorrow evening away against AZ


and my dad's team PSV must play tonight away against promoted team FC Twente

nice video about Sittard, on Fortuna's twitter page :dance:

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Alles Door Oefening Den Haag

:clap1:

Good luck to my Dutch team this season

So Willem II haven't missed Crowley then.:joker:

At least we can't be demonised by their fans for poaching their star player.

And good luck Nicky as that's gonna be a tough match for you guys.

psv was awful, a 1-1 against twente :facepalm:

ajax was not good either, 2-2 away against Vitesse



now tonight come on Fortuna, preparation season was best out of all eredivisie teams, also new 4-4-2 strategy is a good choice, since 4-3-3 was too risky, so Ultee knows his stuff for a young coach

i'm curious what starting 11 Ultee will come up with for this first match, lmao compared to last year, Fortuna now has a luxury problem in defence :hehe: and we sign one english left back from brighton George Cox, as a backup for our captain Mica Pinto

as for midfield, we still hunt for Joe Ledley or buying Jose Rodriguez


some fans moan about how we lost Semedo, well i'm not sad considering he wasn't that good certain important matches


Patrik Raitanen i like this addition for defence, good signing from Liverpool for us, and also loan deal with Passlack from dortmund, he's a good hard worker in defence but also moves forward along flanks which is exactly what Fortuna wants, counter attack football

Karjalainen well his first match he played was friendly against bayer leverkusen and he made that one goal in the surprising 1-0 win

but we have Sambala, Zeka, Donkor, Damascan as other good attack options