Jason Vertonghen

Defensive Midfielder - KV Oostende
13 Nov 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Jason Vertonghen

12 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Laurent Meunier 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.

Match

Laurent Meunier sends KV Oostende past KV Kortrijk

It finished 3‑1, and it was Laurent Meunier’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KV Oostende.

Player ratings

Adnan Tielemans in the eights

A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

One of those days for Laurent Meunier

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Dries Meunier was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Laurent Meunier answers KV Kortrijk immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Laurent Meunier had KV Oostende level again within 4 minutes, and KV Kortrijk never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

Radja Onana 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.

Squad

Jason Vertonghen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at KV Oostende will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Michy Courtois 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

Back issues
3 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dries Lukaku

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. KV Oostende lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Laurent Meunier

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

KV Oostende sell Thomas Vertonghen for $14.0M

Thomas Vertonghen has left for Olympique Lyonnais in a $14.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

KV Oostende say no — this time

The offer from Vizela for Jason Vertonghen was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Laurent Meunier 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 KV Oostende this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Laurent Meunier

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Adnan Tielemans

A mark of 7.29, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Charles De Ketelaere signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Charles De Ketelaere and KV Oostende agree another 3 years.

Match

No goals between KV Oostende and Standard Liege

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Standard Liege will be the happier side with the point.

In brief