The KV Mechelen Herald
Market12 Jun 2028
Ortwin De Wolf asks to leave KV Mechelen
“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.
Market12 Jun 2028
KV Mechelen turn down Racing Genk for José Marsà
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market12 Jun 2028
Terms done: Simion Michez is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Canon Yaounde waiting with a shirt. Nobody at KV Mechelen is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Jessi Da Silva due for a KV Mechelen medical
Everything agreed with Club Brugge, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market12 Jun 2028
Myron van Brederode moves on
Anderlecht pay $9.9M, 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.
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
KV Mechelen go back to the board over Jessi Da Silva
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.9M — a club that wants Jessi Da Silva enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
Noah Bomble has agreed to leave KV Mechelen for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Tempers go at KV Mechelen
Robin Mirisola 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
A move Joran Gerbet would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Joran Gerbet is living that version at KV Mechelen, and it tends to show in the first month.
In brief
- Squad Words at KV Mechelen training over how hard people work
- Transfer targets Door shut on Idrissa Guèye
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Massimo Decoene