Marked for Armando Vargas
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match26 Oct 2026
Nobody above RWDM
First, on 25 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Match24 Oct 2026
RWDM make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now RWDM have 5 straight wins of it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” RWDM have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at RWDM
Oscar Naasei 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over KV Kortrijk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
The big one: Eupen come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. RWDM will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Kwasi Poku
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Armando Vargas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at RWDM
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market
The Valentín Adamo talk will not go away
Back issues
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.69 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match17 Oct 2026
RWDM make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now RWDM have 4 straight wins of it.
Market19 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at RWDM
Oscar Naasei and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match17 Oct 2026
RFC Liege made RWDM work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at RWDM
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kwasi Poku was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
RWDM are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Thomas Onana on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” RWDM may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at RWDM
Oscar Naasei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Juan Carlos Caicedo and RWDM agree another 4 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at RWDM
Something was said to Kiyani Zeggen and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at RWDM, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Guillaume Hubert is on it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Juan Carlos Caicedo arrives at RWDM with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.