Radja Mignolet

Central Defender - Lokeren
15 Nov 2026
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The Lokeren Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Lokeren's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokeren has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

A European lesson for Lokeren

0‑1 against Pogon. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Player ratings

Laurent Castagne runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Mihajlo Cvetković at 19 — 7.75

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mihajlo Cvetković did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Radja Alderweireld 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Lokeren against Sint-Truiden

1‑3 to Sint-Truiden, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Radja Mignolet 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.

Squad

Adrià Vilanova left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Adrià Vilanova will call it something else in private.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Lokeren

6 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.

In brief

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10 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

A European night to remember for Lokeren

0‑0 against Ludogorets, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

9 matches without a win for Lokeren

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Lokeren are no longer polite ones.

Match

Club Brugge punish Lokeren for switching off

3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Lois Fellaini will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Lokeren escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

Lois Fellaini pops up at the right end — 7.39

7.39, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Laurent Castagne 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 Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Radja Mignolet stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Radja Mignolet and Lokeren agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Radja Alderweireld 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.

Squad

Youri Meunier 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.

Match

Lois Fellaini rescues a point for Lokeren

It needed Lois Fellaini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Club Brugge, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief