The Sint-Truiden Chronicle
Market21 May 2029
Adrián Palacios 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.
Squad21 May 2029
Ryotaro Ito 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 Sint-Truiden this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 May 2029
Words at Sint-Truiden training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilias Sebaoui 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.
Squad21 May 2029
A move Sergio Castro would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sergio Castro is living that version at Sint-Truiden, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market21 May 2029
Sint-Truiden sign Sergio Castro, one for the future
Sergio Castro is 19, and Sint-Truiden have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad21 May 2029
Ryotaro Ito has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sint-Truiden will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Market Shion Shinkawa linked with a move away
- Market The clock does Ryan Bakayoko’s negotiating for him