Marc Giger

Left Midfielder - RAAL La Louviere
15 Aug 2026
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Marked for Marc Giger

2 Edition

The RAAL La Louviere Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Marc Giger

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. RAAL La Louviere have done the hard part with Union SG, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

RAAL La Louviere sell a favourite for $2.7M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Marcos Peano was one of the reasons people came, and $2.7M does not replace that by itself.

Market10 Aug 2026

RAAL La Louviere sell Marcos Peano for $2.7M

Marcos Peano has left for Racing Genk in a $2.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

RAAL La Louviere make their move for Matthias Pieklak

$800.0K 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Bryan Soumaré attracts admirers

The name of Bryan Soumaré has come up in conversations RAAL La Louviere were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No thanks: Prosper Peter rejects the move

RAAL La Louviere had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Angers SCO, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jordi Liongola signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jordi Liongola and RAAL La Louviere agree another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at RAAL La Louviere

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

A row about effort at RAAL La Louviere

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zakaria Bakkali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Union SG Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Union SG baulk at the price for Denis Bouanga

Los Angeles Football Club wanted more than $9.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market10 Aug 2026

Marc Giger agrees terms with RAAL La Louviere

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Union SG people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Anan Khalaili at 21 — 8.17

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Anan Khalaili did not need any: 8.17, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Union SG bid $2.8M for Kyan Vaesen

The offer went to OH Leuven 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Union SG make their move for Max Dean

$2.4M 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

Union SG bid $2.3M for Dennis Ayensa

The offer went to Standard Liege 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Union SG say no — this time

The offer from Norwich City for Promise David 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.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Union SG go back to the board over Kyan Vaesen

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $3.0M — a club that wants Kyan Vaesen enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Louis Patris stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Louis Patris and Union SG agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

1 Edition

The RAAL La Louviere Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market3 Aug 2026

Marcos Peano 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 RAAL La Louviere can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Mohamed Soumaré arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mohamed Soumaré has, at RAAL La Louviere, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

RAAL La Louviere make their move for Marc Giger

$2.6M on the table at Union SG. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marcos Peano wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and RAAL La Louviere know it.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Owen Maës stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Owen Maës and RAAL La Louviere agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at RAAL La Louviere

Marcos Peano 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mohamed Soumaré is a RAAL La Louviere player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

RAAL La Louviere rebuffed over Ángel Alarcón

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Utrecht have kept their man, and RAAL La Louviere go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match1 Aug 2026

OH Leuven take the points off RAAL La Louviere

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

1 Edition

The Union SG Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $6.9M for Denis Bouanga

Union SG have gone to Los Angeles Football Club 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Che Adams

Union SG asked and Torino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market3 Aug 2026

Arminia Bielefeld come back empty-handed

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

The terraces3 Aug 2026

Union SG supporters have found a favourite in Anan Khalaili

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Anan Khalaili 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Raul Florucz the difference as Union SG beat Zulte Waregem

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Raul Florucz. 2‑0 against Zulte Waregem, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market3 Aug 2026

RAAL La Louviere join the queue for Marc Giger

Add another name to the list: RAAL La Louviere have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marc Giger. The answer from Union SG has not changed — yet.

Market3 Aug 2026

Kevin Mac Allister wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Berkey Koraçor stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Berkey Koraçor and Union SG agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Raul Florucz ran the middle of the pitch — 7.62

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.62, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

In brief