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No bid needed for that. OHL fan here who recently visited an open fan meeting with members of the technical staff and the board, where the flow of the takeover process was explained. Interested parties will be required to sign an NDA, and will after that gain access to an online data room where all of the club details are uploaded to. Including the financial details.

Fontanarosa was brought in for the left side of the tree man defense, which will hopefully solve the mess like the loss of possession leading up to the penalty. Playing a right footer there has been one of our biggest issues this season. Ideally, we play a backline of Lawrence-Nyakossi-Fontanarosa in a week or two. Not too unhappy with the transfer window. Mirisola will be a clear improvement up front, Vroman was very, very good for Lierse in second division last season so would be a worthy follow up for Leysen and Fontanarosa as said was the much needed left footer for the back three. Despite the results, no major concerns so far as we played four teams from the top six this season and had our share of bad luck as well. Never completely outplayed in any of those four games. Crucial three games now away at Beveren and then at home against Cercle and La Louviere. Unsure about Lakomy, might be a mentality thing. He did play midweek as Schrijvers was suspended.

I've said this elsewhere, but they've been actively open to selling both clubs for years.. And with that knowledge, the uncomfortable reaction makes a lot more sense as they probably didn't want that to be public knowledge.

For what it's worth, the deadline is genuine. But as stated above, it's not the first time KP opens up a window for potential takeover bids, and the deadline on those occasions was similar. So it doesn't imply that there is genuine interest to take over both clubs.

They definitely will even without bids. The deadline is there because a mid or late season bid would have too big an impact on the transfer windows. For what it's worth, it's not the first time they do this, and the deadline on other occasions was exactly the same one.

True, but in our case there might be merit to it. Csepregi manages to consistently sell even redundant players for profit.

For what it's worth, all goalkeepers make mistakes. If no mistake is the bar, Leysen is arguably overrated as well.

Because if they sell Epolo, it'll be for 10M+. Or at least that's the rationale. Burnley was indeed a better option, but it was one of the very few he has. There is little to no interest for him, apparently.

To be fair, we played a lot of teams that are, on paper, better than us (Olympiacos, Lille, Heerenveen) and did remarkably well against them (drew the first, lost 3-6 against Lille, drew 4-4 with Heerenveen after 90 minutes). We completely demolished newly promoted Lommel 5-1, beat Lierse 1-0 in a game that apparently should have been fix or six as well,... So against teams that are just as good or slightly weaker, we do a lot better. Either way, it's way too early to draw conclusions but if we play like we did against Charleroi and Club in the next games, the points will follow. In regards to transfers, we're still on the lookout for a left footed central defender. Pelotas is technically correct that there is no transfer budget unless we sell more players. Nyakossi is the most likely one to go, Leysen fails to attract much interest (despite making it clear that he wants to leave since January, seems to have overestimated himself a little), and Ikwuemesi is also still on the transfer list. The latter was not present for training yesterday, by the way. So who knows, might be happening after all? For Leysen, Standard might be an option but only if Epolo leaves.

Gotta keep in mind that we were playing a team that is just way beyond all other teams except Union (maybe) in terms of absolute quality. You can compare it to PSG playing a lower half side in the Ligue 1, you need absolutely everything to go for you if you even want to stand a chance of grabbing a result.

Slight correction, Lawrence was suffering from a small injury and not on the bench. Was training individually yesterday so should be back against Standard.

Slight correction (as it was me): Boehly has had talks with KP in the past regarding a potential takeover of Leicester and OHL. Not sure whether him and Walter meaning to sell their stake in Chelsea means anything, but it's an odd coincidence at least.

xG of 1.64 against 2.94. Soundly beaten, yes. Five or six, no. And should have scored at least one ourselves. But you need to watch the full game to get a better feel for that. This is also against a club that is leagues ahead of the rest of the Belgian competition.

Deserved loss against what is starting to look like the Bayern of the Belgian first division, but the 0-3 was very much overstated. Still lots of positives to take away from this game, but we need a bit of luck to grab that first win. On an unrelated sidenote, but quite relevant for your LCFC fellas as well, there may be some potential smoke in regards to the takeover rumours. Got it from a reliable source that there have been talks with potential investors at least thrice over the past years, and one of them was Todd Boehly. The same Todd Boehly who is now suddenly looking to offload his stake in Chelsea. Not going to say that there is something there, but it's quite a coincidence.

Been a problem in footie for ages unfortunately, with the player doing to provocation consistently getting less punishment than the player reacting. Wasn't the only time we were effed over by the way. We conceded a very soft penalty (thanks VAR), and then didn't get a penalty for a heavier offence in their box, where the guy from the red card situation would have been sent off with a second yellow.