Morten Odegaard

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Lokeren
9 Dec 2040
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Marked for Morten Odegaard

709 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

27 Feb 2040
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match20 Feb 2040

Axel Chadli lights up a European night for Lokeren

2‑1 against Basel, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Axel Chadli was at the centre of the description.

Match20 Feb 2040

Axel Chadli wins it after the whistle should have gone

116 minutes played. Axel Chadli found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Basel went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings27 Feb 2040

Axel Chadli, 33, rolls back the years — 8.21

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.21 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad27 Feb 2040

Tempers go at Lokeren

Timothy Fellaini 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.

Squad27 Feb 2040

Lapo Deli falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad27 Feb 2040

No place for Aleksandar Vulić on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Lokeren pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Squad27 Feb 2040

Hans Onana has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lokeren 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.

Player ratings27 Feb 2040

Nizar Laroussi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market27 Feb 2040

The shop window has Morten Odegaard in it

Lokeren have let the market know Morten Odegaard can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

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684 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

5 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Sep 2039

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dedryck Mignolet

40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokeren lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom5 Sep 2039

Lokeren spell it out for the manager

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. the manager has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom5 Sep 2039

The Lokeren board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad5 Sep 2039

Juan Cruz Payal keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lokeren may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings5 Sep 2039

Age has not caught Timothy Fellaini yet — 8.18

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad5 Sep 2039

Thomas Batshuayi 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 Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Sep 2039

Ignace Abdelhamid gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ignace Abdelhamid has just signed for Lokeren, and for once the answer mattered.

Match3 Sep 2039

Lokeren find a way past OH Leuven

OH Leuven made Lokeren work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings5 Sep 2039

Nobody could get near Axel Chadli

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

677 Edition

The Lokeren Chronicle

18 Jul 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad18 Jul 2039

A fracture rules Hans Onana out for 56 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokeren will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad18 Jul 2039

Dedryck Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 96 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad18 Jul 2039

Tempers go at Lokeren

Thomas Batshuayi 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.

Squad18 Jul 2039

Timothy Fellaini falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom18 Jul 2039

Lokeren beat the market to Edoardo Cuel from Anderlecht

Anderlecht will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Edoardo Cuel has pre-agreed a move to Lokeren, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market18 Jul 2039

The Hans Onana story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hans Onana signs something — a contract at Lokeren or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief