Michy Januzaj

Left Back - Lokeren
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Michy Januzaj

9 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Romelu Witsel

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Lokeren refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Romelu Tielemans: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lokeren have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Charles Doku at 20 — 7.74

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Charles Doku did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Michy Lukaku 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 Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Dries Witsel sends Lokeren past KV Mechelen

It finished 2‑0, and it was Dries Witsel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokeren.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Lokeren's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokeren has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Timothy Meunier 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Romelu Witsel

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Racing Genk take the points off Lokeren

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Trento are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Lokeren will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Lokeren and Cameron McGeehan are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Romelu Witsel 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.

Squad

Michaël Heylen left out for tactical reasons at Lokeren

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Squad

Lokeren pick somebody else ahead of Michy Januzaj

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief