The KAA Gent Herald
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Tom Vandenberghe keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KAA Gent may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Maxime Lestienne gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Maksim Paskotši 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jonathan Mensah signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Mensah and KAA Gent agree another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jonathan Mensah 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Davy Roef
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Davy Roef has come out of that comparison in the side, and KAA Gent have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Dedryck Chadli on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Dedryck Chadli after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
KAA Gent pick somebody else ahead of Kevin Kis
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match5 Dec 2026
No goals between KAA Gent and Westerlo
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Westerlo will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- Looking ahead Siebe Van der Heyden faces his old club
- Player ratings Aimé Omgba runs at them all day
- Market The Tiago Araújo story refuses to die