The Waasland-Beveren Herald
Match29 Aug 2026
Waasland-Beveren out of the cup
Anderlecht ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Jesse van de Haar, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.84
A mark of 7.84 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
Milan De Weerdt asks to leave Waasland-Beveren
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Waasland-Beveren leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dante Rigo 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Junior Diouf attracts admirers
The name of Junior Diouf has come up in conversations Waasland-Beveren were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Waasland-Beveren
Víctor Álvarez 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Beau Reus
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dante Rigo dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Beau Reus
- Player ratings Jearl Margaritha runs at them all day
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Ilyes Najim