Devyn Payne

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The KAA Gent Herald

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market23 Apr 2029

Maksim Paskotši 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 KAA Gent can pretend not to have heard.

Market23 Apr 2029

Momodou Sonko has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KAA Gent they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Sampson Dweh 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 KAA Gent this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Joel Ordóñez 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 dugout23 Apr 2029

Sampson Dweh is playing like a man with something to prove

The oldest phenomenon in the sport: a new voice in the dressing room and suddenly everybody is available for everything. Sampson Dweh is training as though the last team sheet never existed, because as far as he is concerned it does not.

The dugout23 Apr 2029

Marley Aké 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 dugout23 Apr 2029

Leonardo Lopes 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 Leonardo Lopes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market23 Apr 2029

Aimé Omgba linked with a move away

The name of Aimé Omgba keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KAA Gent say nothing, which says plenty.

Market23 Apr 2029

Abdelkahar Kadri placed on the list

KAA Gent have made Abdelkahar Kadri available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

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The KAA Gent Herald

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Feb 2029

Maksim Paskotši 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 KAA Gent, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

Calvin Verdonk: 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.” KAA Gent have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings12 Feb 2029

Adnan Januzaj, 34, rolls back the years — 7.99

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.99 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market12 Feb 2029

KAA Gent say no — this time

The offer from Helsingborg for Hyllarion Goore 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.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Words exchanged at KAA Gent

Sampson Dweh 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.

Market12 Feb 2029

Redouan El Yaakoubi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KAA Gent they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Devyn Payne 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. Devyn Payne has, at KAA Gent, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match10 Feb 2029

The drought breaks for KAA Gent

6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and KV Kortrijk were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Words at KAA Gent training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siebe Van der Heyden 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.

In brief