The Club NXT Herald
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rayan Buifrahi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rayan Buifrahi commits to Club NXT for another 5 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Club NXT
Argus Vanden Driessche and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tian Nai Koren 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Club NXT against Waasland-Beveren
1‑2 to Waasland-Beveren, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Argus Vanden Driessche
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Rayan Buifrahi's contract
61 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Charles Courtois faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Charles Courtois after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I want to play”: Rayan Buifrahi speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Andre Garcia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Club NXT and Sem Audoor
- The dugout Tian Nai Koren asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Alexander Vandeperre