Toby Onana

Central Midfielder - KV Oostende
20 Feb 2027
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Marked for Toby Onana

25 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Kevin Carrasco

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

Market18 Jan 2027

KV Oostende say no — this time

The offer from Standard Liege for Thomas Openda 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.

Match16 Jan 2027

Nobody wins at KV Oostende

14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market18 Jan 2027

Toby Onana asks to leave KV Oostende

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Romelu Batshuayi 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

KV Oostende sell Philippe Chevalier for $500.0K

Philippe Chevalier has left for Lokeren in a $500.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Thomas Openda 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.

Loan watch18 Jan 2027

Romelu Mertens has seen enough of Waasland-Beveren

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at KV Oostende, and 0 appearances in 23 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Hans Openda 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.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Kevin Carrasco runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Thomas Openda 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.

Loan watch14 Sep 2026

Romelu Mertens counts the days

“I watch every KV Oostende game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Waasland-Beveren runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Kortney Hause was the difference for KV Oostende

Marked 7.36. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Thomas Openda 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

No goals between KV Oostende and Westerlo

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

In brief

5 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match26 Aug 2026

Cup progress for KV Oostende

A 2‑1 win over KV Kortrijk, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match29 Aug 2026

Thomas Openda wins it after the whistle should have gone

91 minutes played. Thomas Openda found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Club Brugge went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Hans Openda at 20 — 8.16

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hans Openda did not need any: 8.16, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market31 Aug 2026

Mousa Januzaj asks to leave KV Oostende

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Axel De Ketelaere 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.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Hans Openda

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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Lokeren join the queue for Philippe Chevalier

Add another name to the list: Lokeren have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Philippe Chevalier. The answer from KV Oostende has not changed — yet.

Match29 Aug 2026

KV Oostende get the job done against Club Brugge

A 1‑0 win over Club Brugge, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Vertonghen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

3 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Kevin Carrasco

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market17 Aug 2026

KV Oostende say no — this time

The offer from Vicenza for Nacer Carrasco 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

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Romelu Batshuayi 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Thomas Openda 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Laurent Boyata 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for KV Oostende against Standard Liege

0‑2 to Standard Liege, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

The game went through Romelu Batshuayi — 6.74

Marked 6.74 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Zinho Vertonghen is still paying for one afternoon at KV Oostende

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market17 Aug 2026

Toby Onana told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Toby Onana has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at KV Oostende.

In brief