The Westerlo Courier
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Westerlo
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Westerlo are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Isa Sakamoto scored one and made one — 7.72
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.72, and 2 involvements.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fernand Gouré among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Fernand Gouré on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Westerlo and KV Oostende.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fernand Gouré’s goal not enough for Westerlo
Fernand Gouré scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to KV Oostende, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Doğucan Haspolat 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Luis Solignac 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 Westerlo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Bryan Reynolds
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Westerlo
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Uwe Meier
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Westerlo were going nowhere until he came on.
In brief
- Market The market said no: Bakary Haïdara stays put
- Market Rouben Nguyen leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Reda Laalaoui runs at them all day