Babacar Djitté Cissé

Defensive Midfielder - Lokeren
5 Aug 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Babacar Djitté Cissé

47 Edition

The KV Kortrijk Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Patrik Gunnarsson asks to leave KV Kortrijk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Matthew Anderson is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Gilles Dewaele in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KV Kortrijk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Babacar Djitté Cissé moves on

Lokeren pay $670.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

A late step up for Cassius Mailula

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Ricardo Alves 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.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Club Brugge join the queue for Thomas Chadli

Add another name to the list: Club Brugge have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Thomas Chadli. The answer from Lokeren has not changed — yet.

Squad

Real improvement from Massimo Decoene at Lokeren

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Massimo Decoene is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Lokeren

Jens Cools 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.

The terraces

Lokeren spend $670.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $670.0K for Babacar Djitté Cissé, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Chadli 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

Lokeren buy the years ahead of Babacar Djitté Cissé

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief