The Anderlecht Chronicle
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Anderlecht
Marco Kana 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Junya Ito 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Ivan Toney has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Anderlecht will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout17 May 2027
Marco Kana 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 Marco Kana trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market17 May 2027
The Mario Stroeykens talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Anderlecht know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout17 May 2027
A door opens for Colin Coosemans
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- The dugout Coba keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Luke Shaw is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Hussen Hassen is out on the grass again
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Moussa Ndiaye at Werder Bremen