The Zulte Waregem Sentinel
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tobias Hedl damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match19 Dec 2026
Zulte Waregem taken apart
1‑5 to Antwerp, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match19 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win for Zulte Waregem
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Zulte Waregem are no longer polite ones.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Jevon Simons’s exile
17 goals in 16 games at De Graafschap — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Zulte Waregem updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Match19 Dec 2026
Thomas Claes among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Thomas Claes on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Zulte Waregem and Antwerp.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jakob Kiilerich 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Youssoupha Mbodji 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 Zulte Waregem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Junior Sambia
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Zulte Waregem count the cost of losing Noa Kapo
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Zulte Waregem dressing room in a hurry
- The dugout Axel De Ketelaere answers for it
- Player ratings Benoît Nyssen gives it away