Siebe Van der Heyden

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Marked for Siebe Van der Heyden

2 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Aimé Omgba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market10 Aug 2026

KAA Gent say no — this time

The offer from Westerlo for Davy Roef was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market10 Aug 2026

Monaco join the queue for Momodou Sonko

Add another name to the list: Monaco have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Momodou Sonko. The answer from KAA Gent has not changed — yet.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Davy Roef signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Davy Roef commits to KAA Gent for another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at KAA Gent

Davy Roef 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

KAA Gent sign Toby Witsel, one for the future

Toby Witsel is 19, and KAA Gent have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Match8 Aug 2026

KAA Gent see off Zulte Waregem

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Leonardo Lopes 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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Siebe Van der Heyden

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Aimé Omgba

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market3 Aug 2026

Queens Park Rangers come back empty-handed

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Fábio Martins would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Fábio Martins is living that version at KAA Gent, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Davy Roef 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 KAA Gent this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at KAA Gent training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Atsuki Ito 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tom Vandenberghe stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tom Vandenberghe and KAA Gent agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Siebe Van der Heyden was the difference for KAA Gent

Marked 7.10. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Market3 Aug 2026

Dries Mertens brings the grey hairs KAA Gent lacked

At 39, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market3 Aug 2026

KAA Gent bring in an old head

Maxime Lestienne is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief