Maxim Deman

Goalkeeper - Waasland-Beveren
1 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Maxim Deman

4 Edition

The Waasland-Beveren Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christian Brüls breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Waasland-Beveren say no — this time

The offer from KAA Gent for Viktor Boone 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Aimé Omgba

Waasland-Beveren asked and KAA Gent said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Waasland-Beveren walk away from Taiga Hata

$2.9M was the most the club would pay and Sint-Truiden were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Maxim Deman 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 Waasland-Beveren can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at Waasland-Beveren training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Beau Reus 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.

Squad

Ferre Slegers 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 Waasland-Beveren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Lennart Mertens takes the honours

Marked 7.76 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Waasland-Beveren had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Waasland-Beveren

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief