Daan Dierckx

Central Defender - Lokeren
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Marked for Daan Dierckx

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The Lokeren Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Romelu Doku sold, and an era ends

$16.5M from Real Sociedad for Romelu Doku. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nacer Tielemans

42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokeren lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match26 Aug 2026

The small margins put Lokeren out

Out, 1‑2 to Racing Genk, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A brace, and Lois Alderweireld takes the afternoon — 8.51

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lois Alderweireld provided it, and the 8.51 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $16.5M sale of Romelu Doku

He is going to Real Sociedad, the club has $16.5M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market31 Aug 2026

Lokeren say no — this time

The offer from Standard Liege for Lois Lukaku 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Adnan Lukaku puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lokeren, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Lokeren — 7.90

1 for Daan Dierckx, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Adnan Vanaken goes up and wins it — 7.65

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.65 for the rest of it.

In brief

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The Standard Liege Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Bernard Nguene breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Maximiliano Caufriez 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. Maximiliano Caufriez is living that version at Standard Liege, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Standard Liege sell a favourite for $2.6M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Gustav Mortensen was one of the reasons people came, and $2.6M does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Toby Alderweireld yet — 8.03

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market17 Aug 2026

Gustav Mortensen moves on

Charleroi pay $2.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Toby Alderweireld 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 Standard Liege this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Casper Nielsen 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Standard Liege sign Maximiliano Caufriez with one eye on the future

Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Maximiliano Caufriez has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.

Market17 Aug 2026

The Daan Dierckx conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Lokeren will make the call about Daan Dierckx this week. Standard Liege have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief