Ilian Temperman

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Free Agent
6 May 2029
Sunday
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105 Edition

The Patro Eisden Sentinel

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Patro Eisden

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout

Kéres Masangu keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Patro Eisden

Théo Pellenard 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Patro Eisden

6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Patro Eisden training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jimmy Kaparos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

One of our own: Leander Vanaken joins the Patro Eisden first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Leander Vanaken is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Patro Eisden promote Michy Lukaku from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michy Lukaku has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Michy Openda steps up from the Patro Eisden academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michy Openda has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Charles Castagne joins the Patro Eisden first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Charles Castagne is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

Back issues
87 Edition

The Patro Eisden Sentinel

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Stef Peeters: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Patro Eisden have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Patro Eisden

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

Squad

Miłosz Kaczmarek 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. Miłosz Kaczmarek has, at Patro Eisden, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Jimmy Kaparos 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.

Squad

Patro Eisden are still strangers to each other

11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Radja Nainggolan'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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Raphaël Sarfo

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Patro Eisden told Raphaël Sarfo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

Théo Pellenard 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 Théo Pellenard is on it.

Looking ahead

Stef Peeters faces his old club

Eupen next, and one man in the Patro Eisden dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief