The KV Mechelen Herald
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tobe Leysen keeps KV Mechelen in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Mauro Icardi 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 KV Mechelen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Feb 2028
Club Brugge take the points off KV Mechelen
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Maximiliano Caufriez 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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
One of those days for Mathis Servais
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Bill Antonio runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Darhein Sayala signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Darhein Sayala commits to KV Mechelen for another 5 years.
Market14 Feb 2028
KV Mechelen sign Aboubacar Sacko, one for the future
Aboubacar Sacko is 19, and KV Mechelen have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Adam Žulevič leaves them behind him
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
In brief
- Market The Mathis Servais talk will not go away
- Player ratings Myron van Brederode changes it off the bench
- Market The market said no: Marvin Peersman stays put