The Anderlecht Chronicle
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Anderlecht do not lose
11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Ilay Camara runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Mar 2027
Inter Turku come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Anderlecht did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Mar 2027
Anderlecht sell Ludwig Augustinsson for $1.5M
Ludwig Augustinsson has left for Djurgarden in a $1.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Colin Coosemans stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Colin Coosemans and Anderlecht agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Anderlecht
Vincent Janssen 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Anderlecht count the cost of losing Gabriel Biladi
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market8 Mar 2027
No place for Sabir Bougrine in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sabir Bougrine has his answer from Anderlecht; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
When it matters, Ritsu Doan 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Giulian Biancone
- Squad Colin Coosemans named in the team of the month
- The dugout A promise honoured at Anderlecht