The Waasland-Beveren Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
Chris Lokesa signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Chris Lokesa and Waasland-Beveren agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Waasland-Beveren
Bruno Godeau 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Waasland-Beveren training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chris Lokesa 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Ilyes Najim
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Lennart Mertens runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ilyes Najim was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Waasland-Beveren and Christian Brüls are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Viktor Boone
Still no offer on the table, and Viktor Boone’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Waasland-Beveren are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Match Ilyes Najim rescues a point for Waasland-Beveren
- Market No place for Erjon Salii in the plan
- Market Waasland-Beveren bring in an old head