The KV Oostende Post
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Michy De Bruyne out for 117 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KV Oostende will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Both of them Laurent De Bruyne's — 9.71
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match28 Sep 2026
KV Oostende are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Vintage Axel Lukaku — 8.22
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.22, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match26 Sep 2026
Laurent De Bruyne the difference as KV Oostende beat Charleroi
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Laurent De Bruyne. 3‑1 against Charleroi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at KV Oostende
Ismail Azzaoui and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at KV Oostende
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hans Courtois was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Laurent De Bruyne
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad28 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and KV Oostende are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout Adnan Hazard: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Hans Courtois knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout No hiding place for Simon De Bruyne