Leonardo Lopes

Defensive Midfielder - KAA Gent
7 Aug 2026
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The KAA Gent Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Aimé Omgba scores twice — 8.43

Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

KAA Gent make their move for Hicham Boudaoui

$7.4M on the table at OGC Nice. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Kashima Antlers tell KAA Gent: Yuma Suzuki 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.

Player ratings

Momodou Sonko, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.49

A mark of 8.49 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

A move Adnan Januzaj would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Adnan Januzaj is living that version at KAA Gent, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

KAA Gent turn down Piast for Max Dean

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Davy Roef 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 KAA Gent this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Aimé Omgba among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Aimé Omgba on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of KAA Gent and Waasland-Beveren.

Match

KAA Gent see off Waasland-Beveren

Three points for KAA Gent, 4‑2 the final word against Waasland-Beveren in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief