Antonio Iorio

Central Midfielder - Patro Eisden
29 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Antonio Iorio

116 Edition

The Patro Eisden Sentinel

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Patro Eisden 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.

The dugout

Ewout Moester says Patro Eisden went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Jhoyler Andrades has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Tempers go at Patro Eisden

Théo Pellenard 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.

Squad

Jimmy Kaparos 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 dugout

No hiding place for Radja Nainggolan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Radja Nainggolan, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Théo Pellenard has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Patro Eisden will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Still no ink between Patro Eisden and Will Vaulks

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Patro Eisden, another week without a signature from Will Vaulks.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Louis Bostyn

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Zulte Waregem in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

Back issues
85 Edition

The Patro Eisden Sentinel

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Patro Eisden

8 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

No end in sight to Patro Eisden's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Patro Eisden has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Patro Eisden

Théo Pellenard 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.

Squad

Antonio Iorio gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Antonio Iorio has just signed for Patro Eisden, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Patro Eisden training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josué Kongolo 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.

Match

Patro Eisden come up short against RSCA Futures

RSCA Futures left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Francesco Ferrara signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Francesco Ferrara commits to Patro Eisden for another 4 years.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Patro Eisden

Jong Gent next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

The dugout

No hiding place for Will Vaulks

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Will Vaulks, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout Stef Peeters left out for the big one
  • The dugout A promise honoured at Patro Eisden
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict