Aaron Balongo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Charleroi U20
22 Feb 2028
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22 Edition

The Charleroi Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Dec 2026

Aaron Balongo damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Charleroi

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

Squad28 Dec 2026

Real improvement from Severin Nioule at Charleroi

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Severin Nioule is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Enric Llansana 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 dugout28 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Maximiliano Caufriez

“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.

Match26 Dec 2026

Charleroi come up short against OH Leuven

OH Leuven left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Hans Januzaj faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Hans Januzaj after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Patrick Pflücke 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 Patrick Pflücke is on it.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Yusuke Matsuo 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 Charleroi, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Charleroi Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Dec 2026

The knee: Aaron Balongo out for 28 days

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

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Isaac Mbenza scores twice — 8.30

Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match19 Dec 2026

Nobody wants to play Charleroi right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Massamba Sow is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Enric Llansana 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.

Match19 Dec 2026

Charleroi get the job done against Westerlo

A 2‑0 win over Westerlo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Kévin Van Den Kerkhof's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Jim Croqué stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jim Croqué and Charleroi agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Hans Januzaj, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief