The KV Oostende Post
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Christian Fellaini
88 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
KV Oostende say no — this time
The offer from PSV for Lois Witsel 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Eden Doku hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KV Oostende can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Radja Tielemans 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mousa Mertens 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mousa Mertens
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Heerenveen join the queue for Laurent De Ketelaere
Add another name to the list: Heerenveen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Laurent De Ketelaere. The answer from KV Oostende has not changed — yet.
Market24 Aug 2026
KV Oostende buy the years ahead of Shion Shinkawa
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Youri Courtois runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match KV Oostende and KV Mechelen take a point apiece
- Player ratings The referee tires of Radja Tielemans