Adnan Vanaken

Goalkeeper - KV Oostende
3 Jan 2027
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22 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Lenn De Smet runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A one-man rearguard from Adnan Vanaken

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Simon 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.

Market28 Dec 2026

Michy Courtois wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at KV Oostende hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Radja 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.

Match26 Dec 2026

Axel Alderweireld the difference as KV Oostende beat Westerlo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Axel Alderweireld. 2‑1 against Westerlo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Ninety minutes of Simon Castagne at his very best

Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at KV Oostende.

Squad28 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Lamine Diakité

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market28 Dec 2026

The Axel Hazard question follows KV Oostende around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Axel Hazard’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Lenn De Smet

Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Mousa Chadli breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match17 Oct 2026

No end in sight to KV Oostende's wait for a win

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

Squad19 Oct 2026

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Kevin 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for KV Oostende against KV Kortrijk

2‑3 to KV Kortrijk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words at KV Oostende training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michy Courtois 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The KV Oostende Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Lenn De Smet

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Mousa Chadli out for 34 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KV Oostende will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market5 Oct 2026

Toby Kompany wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at KV Oostende

Simon 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Radja 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for KV Oostende against Anderlecht

1‑2 to Anderlecht, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief