Football Season Guide

Last season was in line with expectations, given the great changes that took place last summer. The goal was to achieve consolidation and at the time of the league suspension they were sitting in 10th position. Johnny Jansen's team has maintained a steady trend of never being able to build on positive results, while they had an evident decline in the last 10 rounds in which they gathered just 6 points. Last year they sold so many valuable players without replacing them adequately. During this summer, at least until now, they have gone even further by reducing the roster to a small number of players. They sold all three goalkeepers while buying only one. Erwin Mulder arrives from Swansea City, flanking him with a youngster from the youth team. They also did not renew the loans of Sven Botman, Alen Halilovic and above all team star Jens Odgaard. As if that weren't enough, Chidera Ejuke, last season's top scorer with 9 goals, also left Heerenveen. Two other regular players, right-back Ricardo van Rhijn and midfielder Hicham Faik, are no longer part of the blue-white team. Some acquisitions are definitely of a good level, but too few in number. Joining are interesting Uruguayan defender Joaquín Fernández, giant centre-forward Henk Veerman, who comes back to Heerenveen after a positive experience in Germany with StPauli (17 goals in 38 matches) and young midfielder Sieben Dewaele, on loan from Anderlecht.