Makan Traoré

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31 Jul 2030
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Marked for Makan Traoré

205 Edition

The Waasland-Beveren Herald

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Jul 2030

A fracture rules Per van Loon out for 30 days

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

Squad1 Jul 2030

Kevin Lukaku damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.

Market1 Jul 2030

Junior Diouf has said yes to Mouscron

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Waasland-Beveren have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market1 Jul 2030

Anosike Ementa 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.

Market1 Jul 2030

Only the photograph left for Ilyes Najim

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilyes Najim will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Waasland-Beveren the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

Fee done, terms next for Tobias Lawal

Waasland-Beveren and Anderlecht have settled on $2.4M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

Mamadou Diakhon will not be coming to Waasland-Beveren

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Club Brugge is saying, and nobody at Waasland-Beveren is enjoying the guessing.

Boardroom1 Jul 2030

Alessio Mancuso signs for Lokeren while still at Waasland-Beveren

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alessio Mancuso has agreed terms with Lokeren for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Tempers go at Waasland-Beveren

Anosike Ementa 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.

In brief

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193 Edition

The Waasland-Beveren Herald

8 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom8 Apr 2030

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Waasland-Beveren can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market8 Apr 2030

Vasiliy Vasilenko puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waasland-Beveren, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad8 Apr 2030

Arno Verschueren 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 Waasland-Beveren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout8 Apr 2030

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Squad8 Apr 2030

George Younan makes the wrong kind of headline

Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.

Squad8 Apr 2030

A row about effort at Waasland-Beveren

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

Squad8 Apr 2030

Makan Traoré stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Makan Traoré and Waasland-Beveren agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout8 Apr 2030

Ilyes Najim asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout8 Apr 2030

The manager's exit leaves Sidi Cissé exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Sidi Cissé is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief