Adnane Abid

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Standard Liege
15 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

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The Standard Liege Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Standard Liege agree $3.4M for Pape Diong

The clubs have shaken hands with Westerlo; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets

AEK tell Standard Liege: Harold Moukoudi 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Yannick De Bruyne at that price

Standard Liege offered $7.4M; KV Oostende said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Standard Liege spend $2.7M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $2.7M has been paid because Jerry St. Juste is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Market

Oumar Diouf is a Standard Liege player

The fee is $2.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Sint-Truiden drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Botev Vratsa come back empty-handed

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

Market

KV Oostende watching Yann Gboua

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Standard Liege have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom

Standard Liege go back to the board over Pape Diong

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $3.8M — a club that wants Pape Diong enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A falling-out at Standard Liege

Marlon Fossey and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

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The Standard Liege Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Standard Liege rebuffed over Maxime Lopez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris FC have kept their man, and Standard Liege go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Bernard Nguene, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77

A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Mohammed El Hankouri pops up at the right end — 7.79

7.79, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Dimitri Lavalée signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dimitri Lavalée commits to Standard Liege for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Standard Liege

Yann Gboua and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Matthieu Epolo 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.

Squad

Mohammed El Hankouri 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.

Looking ahead

Derby week at Standard Liege

Anderlecht next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.

Match

Charleroi snatch it back from Standard Liege

A goal on 95 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief