The KV Oostende Post
The terraces16 Jun 2031
Supporters organise against the KV Oostende board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market16 Jun 2031
Valencia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and KV Oostende did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets16 Jun 2031
The paperwork begins on Stan Naert
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. KV Oostende have done the hard part with Club Brugge, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad16 Jun 2031
A falling-out at KV Oostende
Thomas Witsel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Jun 2031
Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Batista 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.
Squad16 Jun 2031
Dedryck Doku signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dedryck Doku and KV Oostende agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets16 Jun 2031
KV Oostende try to borrow Eduard Spertsyan
Real Madrid have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout16 Jun 2031
When it matters, Thomas Witsel plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market16 Jun 2031
Marcos Batista linked with a move away
The name of Marcos Batista keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KV Oostende say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Squad Country calls for Marcos Batista
- The dugout Laurens Vermijl has been promised minutes
- The dugout Dedryck Doku knocks on the manager's door