Joe Bakuna

Attacking Midfielder (R) - OH Leuven U20
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85 Edition

The OH Leuven Herald

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Mar 2028

The knee: Joe Bakuna out for 21 days

21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. OH Leuven lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match13 Mar 2028

OH Leuven finish in position 6

47 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Market13 Mar 2028

Thibault Vlietinck hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OH Leuven can pretend not to have heard.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Tempers go at OH Leuven

Henok Teklab 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.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Óscar Gil 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 dugout13 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Joël Drommel

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

Match11 Mar 2028

A bad afternoon for OH Leuven against KV Mechelen

0‑2 to KV Mechelen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings13 Mar 2028

Henok Teklab runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout13 Mar 2028

Joël Drommel is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The OH Leuven Herald

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Mar 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joe Bakuna

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. OH Leuven lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market6 Mar 2028

Roggerio Nyakossi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OH Leuven can pretend not to have heard.

Squad6 Mar 2028

OH Leuven lose Anton Gaaei

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Words exchanged at OH Leuven

Henok Teklab 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.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Siebe Schrijvers signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Siebe Schrijvers and OH Leuven agree another 3 years.

Match4 Mar 2028

OH Leuven come up short against Anderlecht

Anderlecht left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Kevin Rodríguez 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.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

The manager has not finished forgetting Óscar Gil'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 dugout6 Mar 2028

Thomas Doku answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

83 Edition

The OH Leuven Herald

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Feb 2028

Joe Bakuna damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match26 Feb 2028

OH Leuven tear Antwerp apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Antwerp, and it could have been more.

Player ratings28 Feb 2028

Both of them William Balikwisha's — 8.36

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market28 Feb 2028

Kevin Rodríguez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad28 Feb 2028

A falling-out at OH Leuven

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

The dugout28 Feb 2028

Kevin Rodríguez left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kevin Rodríguez will call it something else in private.

Squad28 Feb 2028

A row about effort at OH Leuven

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wilguens Paugain was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch28 Feb 2028

Abdoul Karim Traoré has seen enough of ETO Győr

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at OH Leuven, and 9 appearances in 35 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout28 Feb 2028

Noë Dussenne 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