The Lokeren Chronicle
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Dries Witsel
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Anosike Ementa says Lokeren went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match14 Aug 2027
5 matches without a win for Lokeren
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Lokeren are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Jean-Luc Denis 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Lokeren training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jason 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
ND Gorica are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Lokeren will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market16 Aug 2027
Marcos Silva 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Simon Carrasco
“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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
The afternoon belonged to Zinho Lukaku
A mark of 7.45, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Lokeren?
- Market Thomas Mertens leaves for nothing
- Market Kevin Castagne leaves for nothing