Malick Mbaye

Right Midfielder - Zulte Waregem
17 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Malick Mbaye

17 Edition

The Zulte Waregem Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Joseph Opoku 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 Zulte Waregem can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Malick Mbaye keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zulte Waregem may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Zulte Waregem

Brent Gabriel 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

Jelle Vossen falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Zulte Waregem see off KAA Gent

Three points for Zulte Waregem, 1‑0 the final word against KAA Gent in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Jakob Kiilerich

Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

No hiding place for Adrián Maidana

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

Player ratings

Thomas Claes was the difference for Zulte Waregem

Marked 7.90. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Anton Tanghe

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Zulte Waregem Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Standard Liege punish Zulte Waregem for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Malick Mbaye will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Zulte Waregem escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad

Brent Gabriel 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 Zulte Waregem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Anton Tanghe falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

No hiding place for Marley Aké

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

Match

Zulte Waregem and Standard Liege take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Malick Mbaye 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

2 Edition

The Zulte Waregem Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Brent Gabriel

There were 11 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.

Match

Zulte Waregem strike at the death to beat KAA Gent

There were 86 minutes on the clock and KAA Gent had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Zulte Waregem did not stop to explain themselves.

Squad

Brent Gabriel stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Brent Gabriel and Zulte Waregem agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Zulte Waregem

Brent Gabriel 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

Jelle Vossen falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Serxho Ujka sends Zulte Waregem past KAA Gent

It finished 2‑1, and it was Serxho Ujka’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zulte Waregem.

The terraces

Zulte Waregem supporters have found a favourite in Malick Mbaye

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Malick Mbaye has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Eyes on Andres Labie again

The phone has started ringing about Andres Labie again, and this time the name on the line is Westerlo. Zulte Waregem are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thomas Claes

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

In brief