Denzel Opoku

Striker - Sint-Truiden
24 Jan 2027
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Marked for Denzel Opoku

24 Edition

The Sint-Truiden Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market11 Jan 2027

Abdoulaye Sissako has said yes to Seraing

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sint-Truiden have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

A brace, and Keisuke Goto takes the afternoon — 8.69

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Keisuke Goto provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market11 Jan 2027

RAAL La Louviere come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sint-Truiden did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Arsenii Batahov will not be coming to Sint-Truiden

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Trabzonspor is saying, and nobody at Sint-Truiden is enjoying the guessing.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Shogo Taniguchi 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 Sint-Truiden this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Real improvement from Denzel Opoku at Sint-Truiden

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Denzel Opoku is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match9 Jan 2027

6 goals as Sint-Truiden and Anderlecht go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Sint-Truiden and Anderlecht, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match9 Jan 2027

Anderlecht take the points off Sint-Truiden

Beaten 2‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Racing Genk tell Sint-Truiden: Marcos Peano is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Sint-Truiden Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Both of them Keisuke Goto's — 8.91

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.91, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Shogo Taniguchi 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 Sint-Truiden this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Jeremy Kandje Mbambi at Sint-Truiden

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jeremy Kandje Mbambi is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market19 Oct 2026

Denzel Opoku is a Sint-Truiden player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Match17 Oct 2026

At last: Sint-Truiden win one

6 matches without a win, and then this, against Westerlo. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match17 Oct 2026

Keisuke Goto sends Sint-Truiden past Westerlo

It finished 2‑1, and it was Keisuke Goto’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sint-Truiden.

The terraces19 Oct 2026

One of their own: Keisuke Goto

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Marc-Aurèle Caillard

“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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words at Sint-Truiden training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taiga Hata 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Sint-Truiden Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Leo Kokubo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sint-Truiden, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 5 in, 3 out at Sint-Truiden

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Taiga Hata 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A month that belonged to Keisuke Goto

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Sint-Truiden who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Sint-Truiden

Alouis Diriken 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Samed Baždar at Sint-Truiden

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Alouis Diriken'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 dugout7 Sep 2026

Dante Rigo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sint-Truiden will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Denzel Opoku gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief