The KV Oostende Post
Match18 Jan 2027
KV Oostende up to position 1
43 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at KV Oostende
Hans Boyata 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eden 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for KV Oostende against Anderlecht
0‑2 to Anderlecht, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Dries Vanaken runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Dedryck Batshuayi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dedryck Batshuayi, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
KV Oostende count the cost of losing Thomas Carrasco
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
Kevin Lukaku has seen enough of Waasland-Beveren
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at KV Oostende, and 0 appearances in 23 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Axel Chadli could have had three
7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Market KV Oostende and Richard Olise are talking past each other
- Market The shop window has Kevin Hazard in it
- Market The Christian Januzaj talk will not go away