Michaël Heylen

Central Defender - OH Leuven
4 Oct 2026
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4 Edition

The OH Leuven Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market24 Aug 2026

Terms done: Noë Dussenne is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sint-Truiden waiting with a shirt. Nobody at OH Leuven is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Maxence Prévot stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match22 Aug 2026

No end in sight to OH Leuven's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at OH Leuven has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Thibaud Verlinden 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 OH Leuven this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

OH Leuven rebuffed over Dirk Asare

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zulte Waregem have kept their man, and OH Leuven go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match22 Aug 2026

Kyan Vaesen’s goal not enough for OH Leuven

Kyan Vaesen scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to KAA Gent, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Birger Verstraete 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.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Michaël Heylen

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

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

William Balikwisha 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

  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Henok Teklab's mistake
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Transfer targets OH Leuven ask about Noah Botic
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3 Edition

The OH Leuven Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market17 Aug 2026

KV Mechelen come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and OH Leuven did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at OH Leuven

Thibaud Verlinden 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Thibaud Verlinden runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Racing Genk tell OH Leuven: Jerry Afriyie is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match15 Aug 2026

OH Leuven cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match15 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for OH Leuven against Zulte Waregem

0‑1 to Zulte Waregem, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Lukas Cakoni

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

The formation has left Michaël Heylen behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. OH Leuven will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Hans Carrasco: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

  • Transfer targets A loan move for Lee Young-Jun is in the works
  • Squad 5 new faces, and OH Leuven are still learning each other
  • Squad Lukas Cakoni wants out of the dugout