The Lierse Sentinel
Match13 Mar 2028
Every point is an argument now for Lierse
Position 15 and 27 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match11 Mar 2028
No end in sight to Lierse's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lierse has to find a result from somewhere.
Market13 Mar 2028
Louka Gautier asks to leave Lierse
“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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Nolan Martens 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 Lierse this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Cristobal Hernández gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Cristobal Hernández has just signed for Lierse, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Vincent De Vos 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.
Match11 Mar 2028
Lierse come up short against Beerschot
Beerschot left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Kieran Baskett wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Lierse can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Dries De Bruyne left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Market Lierse buy the years ahead of Cristobal Hernández
- The dugout Laurens Vermijl left out for the big one
- The dugout No hiding place for Mansour Sy