Toby Boyata

Left Midfielder - KV Oostende
23 Nov 2026
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Marked for Toby Boyata

16 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad16 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ángel Viotti

75 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.

Match14 Nov 2026

Kevin De Bruyne leads the rout of Lokeren

3‑0, and Kevin De Bruyne took the headlines on an afternoon when everything KV Oostende tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

No sign of nerves from Kevin De Bruyne at 21 — 9.87

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin De Bruyne did not need any: 9.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad16 Nov 2026

3 goals for Kevin De Bruyne

The match ball belongs to Kevin De Bruyne, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Axel Alderweireld 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.

Match14 Nov 2026

7 unbeaten for KV Oostende

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation KV Oostende did not have in the autumn.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Lois Hazard 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 watch16 Nov 2026

Kevin De Ketelaere wants to come home

“I did not go to Waasland-Beveren to sit and watch. I want to come back to KV Oostende and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Toby Boyata runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ángel Viotti damages knee ligaments — 108 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 108 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Toby Boyata runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

No sign of nerves from Kevin De Bruyne at 21 — 7.99

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin De Bruyne did not need any: 7.99, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Lois Hazard 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Dimitri Payet 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Kevin De Bruyne the difference as KV Oostende beat KV Kortrijk

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kevin De Bruyne. 1‑0 against KV Kortrijk, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Miguel Mellado stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miguel Mellado and KV Oostende agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch19 Oct 2026

Kevin De Ketelaere 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.

Market19 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at KV Oostende

Miguel Mellado arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

11 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ángel Viotti

116 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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Both of them Kevin De Bruyne's — 9.19

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.19, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Zinho Batshuayi, 34, rolls back the years — 8.47

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.47 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Axel Alderweireld 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lois Hazard 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

KV Oostende come up short against KAA Gent

KAA Gent left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match10 Oct 2026

7 goals as KV Oostende and KAA Gent go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between KV Oostende and KAA Gent, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Home is on Marcus Forss's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; KV Oostende are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Toby Boyata

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

10 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Oct 2026

KV Oostende come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of Dynamo Kyiv. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Lois Hazard 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

At 21, Kevin De Bruyne is already the best thing here

An average of 7.09 in a first team he is several years too young for. KV Oostende have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mousa 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Jakub Markovič

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakub Markovič, and the manager let it.

Match3 Oct 2026

KV Oostende come up short against Anderlecht

Anderlecht left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market5 Oct 2026

KV Oostende and Zinho Batshuayi are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Toby Boyata runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch5 Oct 2026

The goals keep arriving from Hans Doku’s exile

5 goals in 3 games at Monopoli — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at KV Oostende updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief