Sofian Bahloul

Central Midfielder - OH Leuven
4 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sofian Bahloul

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The OH Leuven Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Thibault Vlietinck agrees terms with Mouscron

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around OH Leuven people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.8M for Tiago Araújo

OH Leuven have gone to KAA Gent with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

OH Leuven go back to the board over Tiago Araújo

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $6.0M — a club that wants Tiago Araújo enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Ethan Mbappé rejects the move

OH Leuven had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at LOSC Lille, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at OH Leuven

Giovanni Haag and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

3 matches without a goal for OH Leuven

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mamadou Camara

OH Leuven asked and Stade Lavallois said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Henok Teklab gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

OH Leuven come up short against KAA Gent

KAA Gent left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

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The OH Leuven Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Willem II come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and OH Leuven did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Takuya Ogiwara runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bendegúz Kovács rejects the move

OH Leuven had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AZ, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Takuya Ogiwara 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 OH Leuven this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

OH Leuven rebuffed over Michy Batshuayi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Eintracht Frankfurt have kept their man, and OH Leuven go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Giovanni Haag gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

A bad afternoon for OH Leuven against Zulte Waregem

0‑1 to Zulte Waregem, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Sofian Bahloul 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.

Squad

No place for Giovanni Haag in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation OH Leuven are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief