The Standard Liege Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Standard Liege
Toby Alderweireld 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Standard Liege do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match10 Oct 2026
Adnane Abid sends Standard Liege past KV Mechelen
It finished 2‑1, and it was Adnane Abid’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Standard Liege.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Standard Liege supporters have found a favourite in Adnane Abid
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Adnane Abid has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market12 Oct 2026
Juan Esteban Franco arrives at Standard Liege as the heir apparent
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Juan Esteban Franco is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Sylvester Jasper in the eights
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
One of those days for Adnane Abid
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Radja Hazard out for 31 days
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Radja Hazard, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Standard Liege
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout The form table has caught Matthieu Epolo
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout When it matters, Marlon Fossey plays