Ryan Sonck

Striker - KAA Gent U20
18 Nov 2027
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Marked for Ryan Sonck

46 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Jun 2027

17 days out for Ryan Sonck after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KAA Gent will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market14 Jun 2027

Mohamed Koné hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KAA Gent can pretend not to have heard.

Market14 Jun 2027

KAA Gent sign Mathias Fixelles for $2.1M

The paperwork is done: Mathias Fixelles joins from Francs Borains in a deal worth $2.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Market14 Jun 2027

KAA Gent say no — this time

The offer from OB for Sławomir Abramowicz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Mathias Fixelles arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mathias Fixelles has, at KAA Gent, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market14 Jun 2027

Sławomir Abramowicz arrives at KAA Gent as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Sławomir Abramowicz is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

Squad14 Jun 2027

A falling-out at KAA Gent

Davy Roef and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Gyano Vanderdonck is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Davy Roef 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 Davy Roef is on it.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Jun 2027

Terms done: Max Dean is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Francs Borains waiting with a shirt. Nobody at KAA Gent is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

$4.0M settles it between the clubs for Sławomir Abramowicz

Jagiellonia have accepted the money. What KAA Gent do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Ryan Sonck breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market7 Jun 2027

Tom Vandenberghe puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at KAA Gent, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

KAA Gent to lose Briek Morel for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Briek Morel has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at KAA Gent

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

Squad7 Jun 2027

Max Dean signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Max Dean and KAA Gent agree another 4 years.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at KAA Gent

Max Dean 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 dugout7 Jun 2027

When it matters, Adnan Januzaj 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.

In brief

44 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 May 2027

Ryan Sonck breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout31 May 2027

Momodou Sonko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KAA Gent may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at KAA Gent

Davy Roef 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.

Squad31 May 2027

A row about effort at KAA Gent

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

Market31 May 2027

Mohammed El Âdfaoui comes back from a loan that worked

25 appearances and 1 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

The dugout31 May 2027

A promise honoured at KAA Gent

Something was said to Matisse Samoise and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout31 May 2027

When it matters, Maxime Lestienne 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 dugout31 May 2027

Max Dean knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KAA Gent, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market31 May 2027

Michiel Cauwel linked with a move away

The name of Michiel Cauwel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KAA Gent say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

43 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 May 2027

A fracture rules Ryan Sonck out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KAA Gent will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad24 May 2027

Davy Roef 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 KAA Gent this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 May 2027

A row about effort at KAA Gent

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

The dugout24 May 2027

Siebe Van der Heyden 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 Siebe Van der Heyden is on it.

The dugout24 May 2027

Yira Sor knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KAA Gent, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market24 May 2027

The Mathias Delorge question follows KAA Gent around

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

Loan watch24 May 2027

László Bénes keeps scoring at Kayserispor

27 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout24 May 2027

The manager makes Youssef Challouk a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at KAA Gent. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Loan watch24 May 2027

The goals keep arriving from Ibrahima Cissé’s exile

4 goals in 26 games at Patro Eisden — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at KAA Gent updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief