Noah Duclieu

Defensive Midfielder - KV Kortrijk
22 Aug 2032
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Marked for Noah Duclieu

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The KV Kortrijk Post

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Guillaume De Schryver out for 126 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KV Kortrijk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Tristen Alliet agrees terms with Waasland-Beveren

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around KV Kortrijk people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Kevin Openda due for a KV Kortrijk medical

Everything agreed with OH Leuven, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at KV Kortrijk

Mousa Kompany 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.

Market

Ivan Bahrii asks to leave KV Kortrijk

“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.

Squad

Manu De Paepe is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marcos Medina

KV Kortrijk asked and Barcelona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Late improvement for Noah Duclieu

At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

The dugout

Boris Lambert has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at KV Kortrijk 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.

In brief