The RAAL La Louviere Post
Market26 Jul 2027
Jordy Peffer asks to leave RAAL La Louviere
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at RAAL La Louviere
Djibril Lamego and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Graduation day at RAAL La Louviere
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A row about effort at RAAL La Louviere
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Haag was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Club Brugge tell RAAL La Louviere: Lennart Mertens is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market26 Jul 2027
Jason Openda steps up from the RAAL La Louviere academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jason Openda 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Axel Openda joins the RAAL La Louviere first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Axel Openda 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
RAAL La Louviere promote Simon Doku from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simon Doku 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The formation has left N'dri Philippe Koffi behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. RAAL La Louviere will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Donny van de Beek is in the works
- Transfer targets A loan move for Yutaka Michiwaki is in the works
- Squad 5 new faces, and RAAL La Louviere are still learning each other