The Lokeren Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Dries De Ketelaere goes
Chelsea paid $62.0M and Lokeren took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lokeren turn down KAA Gent for Eden De Ketelaere
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
KAA Gent join the queue for Dries Mignolet
Add another name to the list: KAA Gent have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dries Mignolet. The answer from Lokeren has not changed — yet.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Laurent Castagne
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dries Mignolet signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dries Mignolet commits to Lokeren for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Lokeren
Laurent Castagne 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dries Mignolet 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Eden De Ketelaere
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eden De Ketelaere, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rémy Vasseur is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Lokeren has been clear about where Rémy Vasseur stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Yannick Tielemans
- Match Lokeren draw a blank against KV Kortrijk