Linus Claesson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Westerlo
9 Dec 2040
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733 Edition

The Westerlo Courier

13 Aug 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces13 Aug 2040

Anger at Westerlo spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match11 Aug 2040

The wait goes on for Westerlo

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad13 Aug 2040

David Amegnaglo 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 Westerlo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Aug 2040

Words at Westerlo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emin Bayram 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.

Match11 Aug 2040

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Westerlo and Waasland-Beveren in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match11 Aug 2040

Reda Laalaoui’s goal not enough for Westerlo

Reda Laalaoui scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Waasland-Beveren, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad13 Aug 2040

Ivan Mikhnyuk wants to finish where he started

Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Westerlo now know that too.

Squad13 Aug 2040

When it matters, Emin Bayram plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings13 Aug 2040

Nobody could get near Giorgio Ghiani

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
676 Edition

The Westerlo Courier

11 Jul 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Jul 2039

Ignace Abdelhamid breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market11 Jul 2039

Veljko Radosavljević puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Westerlo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 Jul 2039

David Amegnaglo 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 Westerlo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Jul 2039

Words at Westerlo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emin Bayram 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.

Squad11 Jul 2039

Linus Claesson has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market11 Jul 2039

OH Leuven are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Westerlo will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

657 Edition

The Westerlo Courier

28 Feb 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Feb 2039

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bryan Reynolds

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

The terraces28 Feb 2039

Anger at Westerlo spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match28 Feb 2039

Every point is an argument now for Westerlo

Position 15 and 22 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad28 Feb 2039

A fracture rules Timothy Vertonghen out for 88 days

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

Market28 Feb 2039

Veljko Radosavljević hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Westerlo can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Feb 2039

David Amegnaglo 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 Westerlo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief