The KV Oostende Post
Squad17 Aug 2026
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 ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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 ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
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
- Market KV Oostende pick up Valentin Guillaume for nothing
- Market KV Oostende shop where it costs nothing