Mathys Angély

Central Defender - VfL Wolfsburg U20
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mathys Angély

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The Anderlecht Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

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The Anderlecht Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Nordin Amrabat out for 114 days

114 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Anderlecht lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Anderlecht are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 63 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Anderlecht

Mario Stroeykens 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Adriano Bertaccini

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

Squad

A row about effort at Anderlecht

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

The dugout

When it matters, Mario Stroeykens plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Enric Llansana 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 Enric Llansana trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Ilay Camara question follows Anderlecht around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ilay Camara’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Tobias Lawal has been promised minutes

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 Tobias Lawal has written the date down.

In brief