Benoît Costil

Goalkeeper - KAA Gent
19 Feb 2027
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Marked for Benoît Costil

27 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match30 Jan 2027

Chastening afternoon for KAA Gent

A 0‑3 beating by KV Mechelen was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Transfer targets1 Feb 2027

KAA Gent agree $3.5M for Daan Dierckx

The clubs have shaken hands with Standard Liege; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market1 Feb 2027

Benoît Costil 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 The request is on a desk at KAA Gent, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 Feb 2027

KAA Gent turn down Zulte Waregem for Tibe De Vlieger

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

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at KAA Gent until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Match30 Jan 2027

The run is over for KAA Gent

10 matches without defeat, and then KV Mechelen. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Player ratings1 Feb 2027

Aimé Omgba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Words exchanged at KAA Gent

Evander 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.

Loan watch1 Feb 2027

Moctar Diop keeps scoring at Groningen

25 appearances away from home and 17 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at KAA Gent
  • Squad Defences have started doubling up on Dries Mertens
  • Boardroom Nobody left the KAA Gent dressing room in a hurry
Back issues
19 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Dec 2026

Predrag Rajković stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Benoît Costil keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KAA Gent may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Age has not caught Dries Mertens yet — 7.80

At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market7 Dec 2026

Predrag Rajković raises the bar for KAA Gent

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at KAA Gent heard it as anything else.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at KAA Gent

Evander 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.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A row about effort at KAA Gent

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Predrag Rajković was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Noë Dussenne stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Noë Dussenne and KAA Gent agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match5 Dec 2026

Adnan Januzaj the difference as KAA Gent beat OH Leuven

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Adnan Januzaj. 3‑2 against OH Leuven, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces7 Dec 2026

KAA Gent supporters have found a favourite in Maksim Paskotši

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Maksim Paskotši has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

14 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Nov 2026

10 saves: Predrag Rajković was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Adnan Januzaj beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tempers go at KAA Gent

Evander 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Adrian Van Rumst arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Adrian Van Rumst has, at KAA Gent, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market2 Nov 2026

Adrian Van Rumst comes home

The shirt still fits. Adrian Van Rumst is back at KAA Gent, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A row about effort at KAA Gent

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Predrag Rajković was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match31 Oct 2026

No time for Club Brugge to settle

The goal that put Club Brugge ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when KAA Gent equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

KAA Gent keep their word to Evander

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Market2 Nov 2026

No place for Benoît Costil in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Benoît Costil has his answer from KAA Gent; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

12 Edition

The KAA Gent Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Adnan Januzaj was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Evander wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at KAA Gent can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A falling-out at KAA Gent

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

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Kjell Peersman at KAA Gent

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kjell Peersman is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match17 Oct 2026

KAA Gent see off KV Mechelen

Three points for KAA Gent, 1‑0 the final word against KV Mechelen in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Grejohn Kyei 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.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Tiago Araújo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Aimé Omgba 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.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Youri Batshuayi kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief