The Waasland-Beveren Herald
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Lennart Mertens's — 8.50
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Waasland-Beveren make their move for Aimé Omgba
$4.3M on the table at KAA Gent. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $3.3M for Alexandro Calut
Waasland-Beveren have gone to Standard Liege with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Waasland-Beveren go back to the board over Aimé Omgba
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.7M — a club that wants Aimé Omgba enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Arno Verschueren signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Arno Verschueren commits to Waasland-Beveren for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Waasland-Beveren
Sieben Dewaele and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
Lennart Mertens sends Waasland-Beveren past Lierse
It finished 2‑0, and it was Lennart Mertens’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Waasland-Beveren.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kurt Abrahams wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Waasland-Beveren can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad10 Aug 2026
10 new faces, and Waasland-Beveren are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market Waasland-Beveren and Bruno Godeau are talking past each other
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Chris Lokesa