The Club Brugge Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Félix Lemaréchal 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Hans Vanaken, 34, rolls back the years — 8.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market17 Aug 2026
Club Brugge turn down Twente for Gustaf Nilsson
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Club Brugge sell Nordin Jackers for $3.7M
Nordin Jackers has left for Feyenoord in a $3.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Mousa Mignolet would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mousa Mignolet is living that version at Club Brugge, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match15 Aug 2026
Club Brugge cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Club Brugge
Félix Lemaréchal 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
Words at Club Brugge training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hans Vanaken 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Hans Vanaken sends Club Brugge past Charleroi
It finished 1‑0, and it was Hans Vanaken’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Club Brugge.
In brief
- Market Club Brugge buy the years ahead of Mousa Mignolet
- Squad Hans Vanaken finally opens his account
- Market The Nicolò Tresoldi talk will not go away