The Sint-Truiden Chronicle
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Arbnor Muja was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 44. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
An offer of $1.1M for Mathis Lachuer
Sint-Truiden have gone to Club Brugge with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market6 Aug 2029
Ilias Sebaoui wants more than Sint-Truiden are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Words exchanged at Sint-Truiden
Ryotaro Ito 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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Ameer Ali gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ameer Ali has just signed for Sint-Truiden, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Ilias Sebaoui 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.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Swansea City tell Sint-Truiden: Cameron Burgess is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match4 Aug 2029
Sint-Truiden rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. KV Mechelen had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad6 Aug 2029
David Livingston wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sint-Truiden know it.
In brief
- Player ratings Ryotaro Araki was the difference for Sint-Truiden
- Match Honours even between Sint-Truiden and KV Mechelen
- The dugout The view from the dugout