The KAA Gent Herald
Boardroom28 May 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at KAA Gent
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at KAA Gent is running low.
Squad28 May 2029
Tempers go at KAA Gent
Renato Nhaga was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market28 May 2029
KAA Gent may not be able to give Junior Mwanga what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Junior Mwanga wants continental football; whether KAA Gent can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 May 2029
Words at KAA Gent training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daisuke Yokota 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.
Market28 May 2029
Dante Vanzeir comes back from a loan that worked
27 appearances and 7 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.
Squad28 May 2029
KAA Gent lose Timothy Vanaken
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 May 2029
KAA Gent are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Boardroom28 May 2029
Wages eat 92% of everything KAA Gent earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout28 May 2029
Moussa Soumano gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Daisuke Yokota plays
- The dugout Gaëtan Coucke has been promised minutes
- Market The Ruslan Vydysh question follows KAA Gent around