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I agree for the most part, but: I think we should still get an experienced CB. With Ricca and Kurucay we lost our defensive leaders of last season and I don't think Pletinckx and/or Ominami are capable of filling that role. Both are decent defenders but no leaders. Our midfield looks good, but I wouldn't mind an extra creative CAM. Since Xavier Mercier's departure we really lack creativity. Maziz was supposed to fill that role, but he's been a dissapointment and I don't believe he can turn things around this season. Wouldn't mind to see him leave to be honest. We should also get another striker, preferably a targetman in my opinion. I'm hearing a lot of good things about new signing Traore, but he's still only 18. I love the fact that we extended the loan deal of Mijatovic, but he's only 19. Scoring was our biggest problem last season an it would be unfair and unhealty to put all our trust to fix that problem on those 2 kids. We still got Ikwuemesi, but we all know he's not a goal scorer. We've mostly signed very young players so far, which I don't mind. The Belgian league is known for developing young players, so we at OHL should embrace that role. We've done really good with young players like Banzuzi, Schingtienne and Mandela Keita just to name a few. But I also believe that those young players need some experienced players to lead and guide them. So, in my ideal world we would still sign an experienced CB to lead our defense, a creative CAM, a LW/RW and a striker. I realize that this will not happen, so I'll settle for the CB and the striker.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/viktor-damjanic/profil/spieler/946964

Highlights of our last friendly. Our season starts next week with a home game against Charleroi

Looks a lot better than the away shirts!

Jovan Mijatovic will stay at OHL. We have extended his loan until the end of the 2025-2026 season. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jovan-mijatovic/profil/spieler/673432

Highlights of our friendly against local team Rapide Wezemaal (8th tier)

Starsport TV will be our shirtsponsor for the next 3 seasons. Since January 2025 it's illegal to have a gambling/betting company as your shirt sponsor, but those companies and the clubs have found a way around that. They just create a foundation or a secondary company which hasn't technically anything to do with betting or gambling and put that on the shirt. Just put some word like foundation, sport, news and/or TV in front of it and you're good. Pretty disappointed in our club, but that's how things work in Belgium... Some more examples:

Highlight of our first friendly of the new season against KVC Kessel-Lo (7th tier in Belgium)

https://www.transfermarkt.com/bryang-kayo/profil/spieler/666821

We also have a new assistent-manager. Rudi Cossey joins our club from Charleroi. Cossey is a household name in Belgium as he worked for clubs like Antwerp, Club Brugge, Gent and Genk. He was also our manager in the 2007-2008 season. He brings in the necessary experience we need in our coaching staff. In my opinion he's one of the best assistent-managers in Belgium.

Agreed! Still young (37) and inexperienced, but did a good job at Anderlecht in my opinion. Will be important to sign a good, experienced assistent-manager to help him. Always have to wait and see with a new manager, but I definitely prefer him over another dodgy Welshman...

Apparently KP wanted us to sign yet another foreign manager, but our board convinced them to go for a Belgian manager.

They were a big part of the gambling and match-fixing scandal in 2006. After that they dropped down to the lower leagues and merged with some neighboring clubs and changed their name, only to change it back to RAAL La Louvière in 2017. Went from the Belgian 5th division to now getting promoted to the 1st division in only 8 seasons. The club is now led by former players like Enzo Scifo, Silvio Proto and Nicolas Frutos. Non of the people involved with the match-fixing scandal are involved with the "new" club, so no real controversy.

Not at all Our only derby's are against KV Mechelen and Sint-Truiden.

Results and final standings after the last round of the playoffs Champions Playoffs USG 3-1 Gent Club Brugge 1-1 Antwerp Genk 2-1 Anderlecht USG won the league and qualified for the Champions League group stage Club Brugge --> 3th qualifying round of the Champions League Genk --> playoffs of the Europa League Anderlecht --> 2nd qualifying round of the Europa League Antwerp will face Charleroi in 1 game. Winner qualifies for the 2nd qualifying round of the Conference League Gent --> no European football Europe Playoffs Westerlo 0-0 Standard Liège Charleroi 2-1 OH Leuven Dender 2-2 KV Mechelen Charleroi won the Europe playoffs and will play Antwerp in 1 game. Winner qualifies for the 2nd qualifying round of the Conference League. Relegation Playoffs St. Truidense won the relegation playoffs and will stay in the 1st division. Cercle finished 2nd and had to play 2 games against Patro Maasmechelen (winner of the promotion playoffs in the 2nd division). Cercle won 8-2 on aggregate and will stay in the 1st division. Kortrijk and Beerschot have been relegated. They will be replaced by Zulte Waregem (winner of the 2nd division) and La Louvière (2nd place in the 2nd division)

Results and standings after round 9 of the playoffs Champions Playoffs Antwerp 0-4 USG Anderlecht 1-3 Cercle Brugge Gent 1-4 Genk Fixtures for the final round USG - Gent Club Brugge - Antwerp Genk - Anderlecht Europe playoffs OH Leuven 0-2 Westerlo Standard Liège 0-0 Dender KV Mechelen 1-1 Charleroi Fixtures for the final round Westerlo - Standard Liège Charleroi - OH Leuven Dender - KV Mechelen Relegation Playoffs (final standings)

OHL Wowen won the league yesterday by beating Anderlecht on the final day of the season

Results and standings after round 8 of the playoffs Champions playoffs Anderlecht 0-1 USG Gent 0-3 Antwerp Genk 0-2 Club Brugge Fixtures for round 9 Antwerp - USG Anderlecht - Cercle Brugge Gent - Genk Europe playoffs Charleroi 4-3 Westerlo KV Mechelen 0-0 Standard Liège Dender 5-0 OH Leuven Fixtures for round 9 OH Leuven - Westerlo Standard Liège - Dender KV Mechelen - Charleroi Relegation playoffs (final round) Kortrijk 2-2 St. Truidense Beerschot 4-1 Cercle Brugge St. Truidense won the relegation playoffs and stays in the 1st division. Cercle Brugge will face Patro Maasmechelen (winner of the promotion playoffs in the 2nd division) in a home and away game. The winner will play in the 1st division next season, the loser will play in the 2nd division. Kortrijk and Beerschot have been relegated. They will be replaced by Zulte Waregem who won the 2nd division and La Louvière who finished second.

Results and standings after round 7 of the playoffs Champions Playoffs Antwerp 1-3 Anderlecht Club Brugge 4-1 Gent USG 1-0 Genk Fixtures for round 8 Anderlecht - USG Gent - Antwerp Genk - Club Brugge Europe Playoffs Westerlo 4-2 Dender OH Leuven 1-2 KV Mechelen Standard Liège 0-1 Charleroi Fixture for round 8 Charleroi - Westerlo KV Mechelen - Standard Liège Dender - OH Leuven Relegation Playoffs Cercle Brugge 0-2 Kortrijk St. Truidense 2-1 Beerschot Fixtures for round 6 (final round) Kortrijk - St. Truidense Beerschot - Cercle Brugge

Results and standings after round 6 of the Playoffs Champions Playoffs Gent 0-1 Anderlecht Genk 0-1 Antwerp USG 0-0 Club Brugge Fixtures for round 7 Antwerp - Anderlecht Club Brugge - Gent USG - Genk Europe Playoffs OH Leuven 1-1 Standard Liège Westerlo 2-2 KV Mechelen Charleroi 4-1 Dender Fixtures for round 7 Westerlo - Dender OH Leuven - KV Mechelen Standard Liège - Charleroi Relegation Playoffs (round 4) Beerschot 2-0 Kortrijk Cercle Brugge 3-1 St. Truidense Fixtures for round 5 Cercle Brugge - Kortrijk St. Truidense - Beerschot