Marked for Noah Solheid
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Marko Petković out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Seraing will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Aug 2027
Hemsley Akpa-Chukwu had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Zulte Waregem were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Marked 8.00 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market9 Aug 2027
The bid was some way short and Seraing did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match7 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Seraing
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Seraing
Paul Wade and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KV Kortrijk have kept their man, and Seraing go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Seraing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noah Solheid was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Aug 2027
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
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Market
No place for Noah Solheid in the plan
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Boardroom
Belts tighten at Seraing
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
Back issues
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Upbeat
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Pressure builds in the Seraing boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
The mood at Seraing has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market19 Jul 2027
“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 Seraing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Seraing asked and Union SG said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Boli Bolingoli was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
51 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Seraing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noah Solheid 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Seraing have made the call to Racing Genk. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
RFC Liege have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Upbeat
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Seraing
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Seraing is running low.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Supporters organise against the Seraing board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Seraing asked and Westerlo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Paul Wade 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 Seraing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Seraing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Boli Bolingoli 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Racing Genk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Flavio Trubia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Diego Duarte knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Diego Duarte trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad17 May 2027
Flavio Trubia damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Seraing
Boli Bolingoli 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Abdoulaye Bâ 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Luca Foubert 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Noah Solheid asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout17 May 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Bassim Boukteb has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Apr 2027
Naël Lawson breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Malek Adrar: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Seraing have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Seraing
Luca Foubert 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Seraing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Da Costa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Saliou Faye
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Saliou Faye wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Seraing will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Crisis
Market15 Mar 2027
“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 Seraing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Ali Donny Sylla at 19 — 7.87
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ali Donny Sylla did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Seraing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Boli Bolingoli 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 ahead15 Mar 2027
Seraing face Jong Gent in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I watch every Seraing game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lierse runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Noah Solheid
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match13 Mar 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Patro Eisden leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Arthur De Bolle out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Seraing will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Pressure builds in the Seraing boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Seraing close the window on a squad of their own making
6 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Seraing
Paul Wade and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Boli Bolingoli 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing Genk have kept their man, and Seraing go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan move for Simon Buggea is in the works
Seraing have made the call to KAA Gent. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Noah Solheid
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Luca Foubert knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Seraing, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match26 Dec 2026
8 matches without a win for Seraing
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Seraing are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ali Donny Sylla is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Paul Wade 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 Seraing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Beerschot, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 130% of the Seraing income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Seraing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdoulaye Bâ was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Paul Wade beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Charles Meunier left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noah Solheid, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match24 Oct 2026
At last: Seraing win one
10 matches without a win, and then this, against Jong Genk. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Thierno Gaye: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Seraing have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Björn Engels 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 Seraing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Seraing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Da Costa 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Ali Donny Sylla has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for Seraing, 2‑0 the final word against Jong Genk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Seraing 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Charles Meunier on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Seraing out of the cup
Union SG ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑3 to KV Kortrijk, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Seraing can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Seraing
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.3M — a club that wants Martin Delavallée enough to be asked twice.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Noah Solheid was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sanfrecce Hiroshima have kept their man, and Seraing go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nick Gillekens, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match22 Aug 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Alper Ademoğlu will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Seraing escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Seraing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Hemsley Akpa-Chukwu, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$2.6M on the table at Lommel. 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 targets24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
The offer went to Charleroi this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Seraing's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Seraing has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Seraing
Paul Wade 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.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Seraing have done the hard part with KAA Gent, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Mathieu Muland scored one and made one — 7.96
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.96, and 2 involvements.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Seraing
Noah Solheid and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Seraing asked and Union SG said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdoulaye Bâ has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Seraing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hady Camara 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Level with 97 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Seraing had all but put away. RWDM will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Antwerp, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Noah Solheid was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Seraing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Foubert was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Seraing asked and Union SG said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Noah Solheid has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Luca Foubert behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Seraing will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Seraing, another week without a signature from Luca Foubert.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nick Gillekens and Seraing agree another 2 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Noah Solheid 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Seraing
Thierno Gaye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
61 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Adrián Palacios is in the works
Seraing have made the call to Racing Genk. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Union SG have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Charles Meunier chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.