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To be honest, we had the better chances and should always been ahead before that absolutely undeserved red card around the hour mark. After that it was just hanging on to the point. In other news, threw away a 0-2 lead at Westerlo yesterday for yet another draw, whicn in itself isn't a bad result. We'll need something from the next game in Mechelen though. And probably without Banzuzi, who is on his way to Leipzig for 16M.

It's even better because it doesn't account for the summer transfer window, which saw us in a net positive of about 10M at least. Assuming this year will be pretty much break even, and with the pending sale of Banzuzi (15M price tag at least) we'll be in the green for next year as well!

Another huge missed opportunity to secure another season in the top flight because Coleman just doesn't allow us to go forward.

It looks like you can, as from what I hear the plan is to find a new manager after this season. Nothing against him, and he seems to have a really effective lucky rabbit foot somewhere, but despite the results there's a real lack of a clear 'football philosophy' apparently. Which is fine for now, as it's about the points at this stage of the season, but he has no clear vision towards next year apparently.

Another buzzer goal, this time by Banzuzi, to grab us a very satisfying point away at fifth placed Antwerp.

Absolutely undeserved but absolutely very important three points yesterday. Turned it around in the final minutes from 1-2 to 3-2 through a (deserved) penalty and a moment of genius of Mijatovic on his debut with the winner.

Correct,financially way out of our league unfortunately. There are talks about a possible extension for next season though, so fingers crossed on that. Anyway, great win yesterday with ten vs twelve. Temporarily six points clear of the playdowns, and with some luck it stays that way.

Official now, here we go! Jovan Mijatovic tekent bij OH Leuven - OHL - Oud-Heverlee Leuven

About to reveal the signing of Jovan Mijatovic (presumably on loan) from New York as well. Big one for us, this.

Assuming they mainly need to sign off on things (which can be a stumbling block, as Bonanza explained). Day to day operations and transfer are afaik handled by our CEO and the new sporting director (who, in my opinion, have done very well in the short time since they arrived). On KP, I'm still convinced they're good for us. As Bonanza said, they're very good on the financial side, contrary to a lot of other Belgian clubs with foreign owners. And I'm still convinced that we will easily get a top ten spot this season, and even top eight is not out of the question. Only thing lacking right now is goals, defensively we're very stable but we need that bit of luck in front of goal.. Yesterday was a prime example of that, plenty of chances but got a ball cleared from the line twice.

Lost 2-0 to league leaders Genk, who were down to ten men after six minutes, through two idiotic penalties and after missing three sitters.

Which makes sense, considering we're not your feeder club. Considering the way he's been developing, he's remarkably close and probably will be by the end of the season if he keeps this up. But Monaco would probably be the best place for him to take the next step, and then an absolute top club in a year or two, three max.

When he turns up (which is quite often lately) an absolute baller of a striker and probably one of, if not the best in Belgium. Still has his occasional games where he just disappears though, like recently in Genk and against us at the start of December. Van Helden has potential but the step up to Premier League football would be far too big for him imo. Bayram's probably better at this point, still don't get why Galatasaray let him leave. Either way, there are quite a few CB's that are further ahead in terms of development, like Ordonez (Club Brugge), Zeno Van den Bosch (Antwerp) or Sadick (Genk).

Skov has some serious mentality issuses, also the main reason why he's still playing for Club Brugge and hasn't been able to secure a move to a bigger league. Tolu could be good but feels like an Onuachu story, who has a similar profile, scored loads of goals for Genk but now can't even get off the bench at Southampton.

At right back, El Ouahdi (same club as Bilal) is imo the one to watch. Only 23, moved from just promoted RWDM to Genk in the summer of 2023, and has made some stellar progress. Technically decent, great mentality and an amazing amount of volume. For me by far the best one in the league. Zakaria El Ouahdi - Player profile 24/25 | Transfermarkt On the left, De Cuyper from Club Brugge is probably the best one. Excellent crosser, great technicals, another one with a solid mentality and a bit of a set piece specialist as well. Six caps for Belgium and recently scored his first goal against Italy. Maxim De Cuyper - Player profile 24/25 | Transfermarkt Less sure about the wing. I really like Tzolis from Club Brugge personally. When it comes to young potentials yet to break through, I believe Tristan Degreef from Anderlecht is the one to watch. And if you're looking for a striker, I believe Promise David from Union could very well be their next Victor Boniface.

At the end of the current season!

Great 2-0 win over last placed Beerschot, sees us into 11th place now, four points clear of the relegation playdowns and five points off the championship playoffs. Makes it extra sour that we lost one/three points last weekend, which would have seen us propel up to 7th.. Short winter break now, after which we play away at Club Bruges in the cup on 7/1, then go to league leaders Genk on 11/1 and travel to in form Union the week after. And then it's two home games. If we pick up 5 points from those games, we'll already have more than at the end of the regular season last year, with six games to go so I'm very confident that we'll avoid the playdowns and finish somewhere between spot 8 and 12, unless we do some real magic during the winter window.

Absurdly missed opportunity yesterday. We were the better team (or the least worst, depending on how you look at it) for the entire game, but couldn't find the back of the net and then got a soft pen against in the 96st (!) minute after only four minutes were added.

Five mil and he's yours! Great lad, good at holding the ball but can't score a goal for the life of him.

Maybe you guys should loan some of our youngsters, seems like you could do with some improvement as well.

Fourteen goals in our last ten official games, cup and league combined. Not fantastic, but also not horrible. Whilst I appreciate the idea, I think we have plenty of attacking players who have already shown more than him on the professional stage, it's one position where we are definitely not lacking (and will probably even recover our best player, Maertens in the next few weeks, making competition even fiercer).

Important context: We've drawn pretty much every game since either of those two.

And more importantly, we play the (currently) second last and last: Cercle (away) and Beerschot (home). Should be at least 4/6, and ideally 6/6 to propell us up the table.

4/6 for Coleman, very close win today. Atrocious first half where Charleroi hit the bar twice (again, after Standard hitting the woodwork thrice last game). Better after the break, real belter of a goal by Ndri (until then by far the worst player on the pitch). Really picked up steam from that one but had one lucky moment when they got a cheap penalty, stopped by Leysen. Two minutes later of of them got a second yellow and from there on, we never got in trouble anymore.

Condolences if you watched all that But we've left out plenty of points while being the better team this year, good to see it the other way around this time. Now we need a win next week against Charleroi and hopefully, that will set us up for a bit of a series.