The KV Kortrijk Post
Match9 Dec 2028
5 matches without a win for KV Kortrijk
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around KV Kortrijk are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Dec 2028
A row about effort at KV Kortrijk
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mihajlo Cvetković was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Dec 2028
A falling-out at KV Kortrijk
Ibrahima Diaby and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match9 Dec 2028
KV Kortrijk come up short against Anderlecht
Anderlecht left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Ilan Hurtevent frozen out at KV Kortrijk
This is not rotation. Ilan Hurtevent has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at KV Kortrijk is pretending otherwise.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
No hiding place for Thibault Vlietinck
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thibault Vlietinck, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Dec 2028
KV Kortrijk count the cost of losing Guust Lamerand
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Youri Mertens left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Gauthier Hein 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 KV Kortrijk, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market KV Kortrijk and Suf Podgoreanu are talking past each other
- Market The Marko Ilić story refuses to die
- Player ratings Paris Elmensdorp wins it from the bench