The Sint-Truiden Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Sint-Truiden say no — this time
The offer from Spezia for Oumar Diouf was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Keisuke Goto, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80
A mark of 7.80 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Samed Baždar
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilias Sebaoui signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilias Sebaoui commits to Sint-Truiden for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Sint-Truiden
Ryotaro Ito 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Sint-Truiden training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taiga Hata 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Sint-Truiden come up short against Club Brugge
Club Brugge left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilias Sebaoui
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Sint-Truiden on Toby Lukaku
He is 14, and nobody at Sint-Truiden signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Market Sint-Truiden sign Simon Lukaku, one for the future
- Market Sint-Truiden sign Youri Hazard, one for the future
- Player ratings Shogo Taniguchi comes off early