The Patro Eisden Sentinel
Squad26 Jul 2027
Joris Gouache 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 Patro Eisden this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Patro Eisden
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at Patro Eisden training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rominigue Kouamé 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Club Brugge tell Patro Eisden: 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
One of our own: Romelu Batshuayi joins the Patro Eisden first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Romelu Batshuayi 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
One of our own: Lois Hazard joins the Patro Eisden first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lois Hazard 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
Patro Eisden promote Romelu Batshuayi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Romelu Batshuayi 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Patro Eisden promote Michy Kompany from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michy Kompany 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
Ryosuke Yamanaka wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Patro Eisden can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- Boardroom Patro Eisden say no to the training-ground money
- The dugout Raoul Kenne gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead A reunion for Léandro Rousseau