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64 Edition

The Beerschot Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad18 Oct 2027

21 days out for Eddy Omonga after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Beerschot will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Marco Weymans says Beerschot went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Words exchanged at Beerschot

Ivan Pavlić 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.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Words at Beerschot training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Genki Haraguchi 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.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

No hiding place for Ivan Pavlić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Pavlić, and the manager let it.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Nikola Mituljikić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

The afternoon belonged to Oscar Vargas

A mark of 7.21, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

When it matters, Brian Plat plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Christian Openda: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

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63 Edition

The Beerschot Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Oct 2027

29 days out for Eddy Omonga after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Beerschot will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad11 Oct 2027

A falling-out at Beerschot

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

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words at Beerschot training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bas Van den Eynden 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.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

No hiding place for Björn Engels

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Björn Engels, and the manager let it.

Boardroom11 Oct 2027

88% of the income goes out in wages at Beerschot

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market11 Oct 2027

Roberto Vanegas told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Roberto Vanegas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Beerschot.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Genki Haraguchi 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 Genki Haraguchi is on it.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Ivan Pavlić 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 Beerschot, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market11 Oct 2027

Still no ink between Beerschot and Björn Engels

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Beerschot, another week without a signature from Björn Engels.

In brief

62 Edition

The Beerschot Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Oct 2027

36 days out for Eddy Omonga after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Beerschot will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

Oscar Vargas, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63

A mark of 7.63 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

Age has not caught Genki Haraguchi yet — 8.16

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.16 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Genki Haraguchi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Genki Haraguchi and Beerschot agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Beerschot

Brian Plat 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.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Genki Haraguchi 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.

The terraces4 Oct 2027

The crowd has taken to Oscar Vargas

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match2 Oct 2027

Genki Haraguchi the difference as Beerschot beat RFC Liege

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Genki Haraguchi. 2‑0 against RFC Liege, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

Ninety minutes of Nikola Mituljikić at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Beerschot.

In brief

61 Edition

The Beerschot Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad27 Sep 2027

Eddy Omonga breaks a bone — 43 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Oscar Vargas was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Genki Haraguchi 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 Beerschot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Beerschot training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oscar Vargas 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.

Match25 Sep 2027

The goals have deserted Beerschot

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Beerschot can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad27 Sep 2027

25 clean sheets for Nick Shinton

A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and Nick Shinton now has 25 of them across 95 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

The manager makes an example of Arnold Vula

“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.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Nick Shinton asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Christian Openda on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Christian Openda after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief