Patrick Berger

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Standard Liege
28 Jul 2042
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738 Edition

The Standard Liege Gazette

17 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match15 Sep 2040

The run at home goes on for Standard Liege

16 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad17 Sep 2040

A one-man rearguard from Hans Lukaku

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market17 Sep 2040

Mousa Courtois is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Standard Liege is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market17 Sep 2040

Yannick Kompany asks to leave Standard Liege

“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.

Match15 Sep 2040

Standard Liege cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad17 Sep 2040

Tempers go at Standard Liege

Anísio Cabral 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.

Squad17 Sep 2040

Kjell Peersman 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.

Match15 Sep 2040

Standard Liege find a way past OH Leuven

OH Leuven made Standard Liege work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings17 Sep 2040

Tiago Rodrigues runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
737 Edition

The Standard Liege Gazette

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Sep 2040

Anísio Cabral 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 Standard Liege this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Sep 2040

Nobody wants to play Standard Liege right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Words at Standard Liege training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kjell Peersman 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.

Market10 Sep 2040

Mouscron expected to open talks for Radja De Bruyne

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Standard Liege will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match8 Sep 2040

Standard Liege get the job done against Zulte Waregem

A 2‑1 win over Zulte Waregem, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Patrick Berger has improved at 25, 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.

Player ratings10 Sep 2040

Ninety minutes of Tiago Rodrigues at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Standard Liege.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Dries De Ketelaere signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dries De Ketelaere commits to Standard Liege for another 4 years.

Player ratings10 Sep 2040

Nobody could get near Joakim Lavia

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief