The KV Oostende Post
Match1 Oct 2029
KV Oostende are in real trouble now
Position 14, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Thomas Kompany breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Oct 2029
Jakob Kiilerich 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 The request is on a desk at KV Oostende, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Oct 2029
Branco van den Boomen wants more than KV Oostende are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Tempers go at KV Oostende
Yannick De Ketelaere 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.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dries Boyata is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings1 Oct 2029
Hans Mignolet runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Sep 2029
KV Oostende come up short against Charleroi
Charleroi left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Josh Stephenson 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Mauro Lenaerts stands above it all
- Player ratings The one thing Timothy Openda could not do