The Club Brugge Chronicle
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Carlos Forbs
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Romeo Vermant
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Club Brugge lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Aug 2026
Romeo Vermant turns Stromsgodset down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
KAA Gent come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Club Brugge did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Ilias Sebaoui
Club Brugge asked and Sint-Truiden said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jason Denayer gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jason Denayer has just signed for Club Brugge, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Freddie Potts stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Freddie Potts and Club Brugge agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yann Sommer 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 Club Brugge this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Carlos Forbs’s goal not enough for Club Brugge
Carlos Forbs scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Sint-Truiden, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Freddie Potts
- Market Club Brugge promote Kevin Onana from within
- Market Club Brugge promote Timothy Mertens from within