The Anderlecht Chronicle
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Anderlecht baulk at the price for Thibaud Verlinden
OH Leuven wanted more than $13.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad21 Jun 2027
26 days out for Christian Chadli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Anderlecht will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Door shut on Isa Sakamoto
Anderlecht 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Waasland-Beveren come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Anderlecht did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Ilay Camara stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ilay Camara and Anderlecht agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Anderlecht
Danylo Sikan 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The step up is real for Mathys Angély
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Adriano Bertaccini
“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
Danylo Sikan gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Danylo Sikan is on it.
In brief
- Market The Ilay Camara question follows Anderlecht around
- The dugout A door opens for Tobias Lawal
- Boardroom The Anderlecht production line keeps running