The KAA Gent Herald
Market26 Jul 2027
Queens Park Rangers come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and KAA Gent did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at KAA Gent
Joel Ordóñez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at KAA Gent training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davinson Sánchez 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.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at KAA Gent
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market26 Jul 2027
KAA Gent promote Christian De Ketelaere from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christian De Ketelaere has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Lois Carrasco joins the KAA Gent first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lois Carrasco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
Michy Vanaken steps up from the KAA Gent academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michy Vanaken has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Joel Ordóñez is still paying for one afternoon at KAA Gent
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Tiago Araújo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tiago Araújo is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Momodou Sonko has been promised minutes
- Squad A season on the outside for Bryang Kayo
- Boardroom KAA Gent invest behind the scenes