The Lommel Chronicle
Market7 Oct 2030
Justin Hanks asks to leave Lommel
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match5 Oct 2030
4 matches without a win for Lommel
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lommel are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Oct 2030
Tempers go at Lommel
Jakob Napoleon Romsaas 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.
Match5 Oct 2030
4 matches without a goal for Lommel
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout7 Oct 2030
Matthias Pieklak frozen out at Lommel
This is not rotation. Matthias Pieklak has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Lommel is pretending otherwise.
Squad7 Oct 2030
Words at Lommel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ondřej Čoudek 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.
The dugout7 Oct 2030
No hiding place for Jim Allevinah
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jim Allevinah, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Oct 2030
A step back for Marcelo Fernández at Lommel
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Boardroom7 Oct 2030
Wages swallow 101% of the Lommel income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
In brief
- Squad Thomas Carrasco signs a new deal
- Market Lommel and Marcelo Fernández are talking past each other
- The dugout The manager’s verdict