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The OH Leuven Thread 2020/21

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It's official: OHL has just been promoted to the Belgian 1st division!!!

 

After numerous of court orders and complaint, the League had no other option as to promote both us and Beerschot. Waasland-Beveren is staying up as well.

 

This whole situation could've been avoided if the League used common sense!

 

We finally can start signing new players!

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7 minutes ago, Bonanza said:

It's official: OHL has just been promoted to the Belgian 1st division!!!

 

After numerous of court orders and complaint, the League had no other option as to promote both us and Beerschot. Waasland-Beveren is staying up as well.

 

This whole situation could've been avoided if the League used common sense!

 

We finally can start signing new players!

Huge Congrats

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40 minutes ago, Bonanza said:

It's official: OHL has just been promoted to the Belgian 1st division!!!

 

After numerous of court orders and complaint, the League had no other option as to promote both us and Beerschot. Waasland-Beveren is staying up as well.

 

This whole situation could've been avoided if the League used common sense!

 

We finally can start signing new players!

Great news! What's the situation with the manager though? Didn't he get sacked? Any chance for a return for Nige?

 

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13 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Great news! What's the situation with the manager though? Didn't he get sacked? Any chance for a return for Nige?

 

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We sacked Vincent Euvrard on June 9th and brought in Marc Brys on June 16th, so a return for Nigel is highly unlikely to say the least ;) 

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This is fantastic news! delighted for you!!!

 

 

I think we will always have a partnership but with you getting promoted to the 1st division i think we will be willing to loan you a higher caliber of payer. 

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This is fantastic news! delighted for you!!!

 

 

I think we will always have a partnership but with you getting promoted to the 1st division i think we will be willing to loan you a higher caliber of payer. 

I agree.

 

We are looking for a goalkeeper and a central defender. Maybe Iversen and Benkovic?

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4 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

I would say Iversen could be possible. No chance with Benkovic though.

Yeah, Benkovic was a bit of wishful thinking. Has he fully recovered from his injury? I saw he went on loan to Bristol City in January.

 

What about Fousseni Diabaté?

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Yeah, Benkovic was a bit of wishful thinking. Has he fully recovered from his injury? I saw he went on loan to Bristol City in January.

 

What about Fousseni Diabaté?

I think that would depend on if we could move him on for money. Id guess we would be trying hard to sell him along with Silva and Slimani. 

 

Realistic options probably include  Darnell Johnson, Luke Thomas (possibly, but his recent perfomances may attract championship clubs), Dewsbury-Hall, Knight, Leshabela, Hughes.  Probably Kaputska again if we cant move him on. In terms of keepers, if Iverson has already agreed to go to the championship, Bosworth would be a good shout (he's won academy player of the season for the last 2 years on the trot)

 

Of that list if you could get Dewsbury-Hall, Knight and Thomas, youd be very happy as these guys are all class and could eventually break into our first team. I think that after some of the players struggling to adapt in the past youd be unlikely to go for 3 english players though. 

 

Edit- Completely forgot the most likely of the bunch Ghezal. No way we are getting someone to sign him from us and on a 4 year deal. I'll call it early but he'll be in your team next season.

 

 

 

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27 minutes ago, Bonanza said:

Yeah, Benkovic was a bit of wishful thinking. Has he fully recovered from his injury? I saw he went on loan to Bristol City in January.

 

What about Fousseni Diabaté?

He seems to have recovered from his injury and if I remember correctly once he got a spot in the Bristol team he did very well. 
 

I don’t think you want Diabate, or at least not yet. Consistency wasn’t his thing. Tbh not sure how he has done with his loan but I don’t recall seeing any headlines about how he was bossing it up. 
 

fantastic news on promotion, that’s really good news. How many teams are in the top flight? And what do you think your goals for the coming season will be?  

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39 minutes ago, Suzie the Fox said:

He seems to have recovered from his injury and if I remember correctly once he got a spot in the Bristol team he did very well. 
 

I don’t think you want Diabate, or at least not yet. Consistency wasn’t his thing. Tbh not sure how he has done with his loan but I don’t recall seeing any headlines about how he was bossing it up. 
 

fantastic news on promotion, that’s really good news. How many teams are in the top flight? And what do you think your goals for the coming season will be?  

Normally there are 16 teams in the 1st division, but now we will have 18 teams in "1A". This wouldn't be Belgium if we hadn't some wierd setup:

 

All the teams play each other twice (34) games. At the end of the regular season, the teams that finish in 1st, 2nd, 3th and 4th compete in Playoff 1, while teams that finish in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th face each other in Playoff 2.

 

The winner of Playoff 1 wins the league and qualifies for the Champions League group stage. Number 2 qualifies for the CL third qualifying round, while number 3 qualifies for the Europa League group stage. The team that finishes 4th in Playoff 1 will face of against the winner of playoff 2 for a place in the Europa League second qualifying round.

 

The team that finishes 18th at the end of the regular season drops down to the 2nd division, while number 17 will face of against the team that finishes in second place in the 2nd division.

 

This setup will only be used in the upcoming season (2020/2021). In the 2021/2022 season there will be 3 teams that drop down automatically to the 2nd division (teams 16, 17 and 18), while only the winner of the 2nd division get promoted. This means the 2022/2023 season will have 16 teams in the 1st division and everything returns to "normal". 

 

Personally I would be happy if we can fight off relegation this season.

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1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

I think that would depend on if we could move him on for money. Id guess we would be trying hard to sell him along with Silva and Slimani. 

 

Realistic options probably include  Darnell Johnson, Luke Thomas (possibly, but his recent perfomances may attract championship clubs), Dewsbury-Hall, Knight, Leshabela, Hughes.  Probably Kaputska again if we cant move him on. In terms of keepers, if Iverson has already agreed to go to the championship, Bosworth would be a good shout (he's won academy player of the season for the last 2 years on the trot)

 

Of that list if you could get Dewsbury-Hall, Knight and Thomas, youd be very happy as these guys are all class and could eventually break into our first team. I think that after some of the players struggling to adapt in the past youd be unlikely to go for 3 english players though. 

 

 

 

I would love to see Luke Thomas in an OHL shirt, but maybe he's better of in the Championship. I saw his game against Sheffield. Lad's got a lot of potential!

 

If we would get any player(s) in on loan, all parties should get better of the deal. OHL should get a player that make a good contribution and the player should get the necessary playing time so he can develop. This would mean the player returns to Leicester more developed and ready for the next step in his career. No more George Hirst deals please ;)

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Personally I would be happy if we can fight off relegation this season.


 

I guarantee you that Top will do everything possible to prevent that from happening. I wouldn’t be surprised if has higher aspirations than just avoiding relegation.. he will want AT LEAST a top ten finish this coming season. he will financially back you, also.

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I’ve just read what this promotion has done to the Belgian second division (Division 1B) leaving it with six teams. 

 

A team who finished 14th in the third tier are promoted as they were the only qualifiers for a professional license (and the new club of Lierse). 
 

The eighth team is Club Brugge Under 23s as there is no club willing to make the ‘professional’ step 

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17 minutes ago, MPH said:


 

I guarantee you that Top will do everything possible to prevent that from happening. I wouldn’t be surprised if has higher aspirations than just avoiding relegation.. he will want AT LEAST a top ten finish this coming season. he will financially back you, also.

I'm not worried about Top and King Power. I am worried about our Director of Football Wim De Corte. We need good signings and we need them fast. But his track record hasn't been positive to say the least.

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19 minutes ago, jeffschlupp said:

@Bonanza there's an article from Ghana from today saying Kamal Sowah is back at Leicester after two years at OHL, but I thought he was still with you and was going to stay for another season?

 

Here's the article: https://kickgh.com/more/ghanaians-abroad/10270-exclusive-ghanaian-sensation-kamal-sowah-returns-to-leicester-city#

I think Kamal is still with us until Sunday. We still have to play the 2nd leg of the final to determine who wins the league.

 

In our friendlies, Kamal was a part of our "starting eleven", so maybe he will return for another loan spell.

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15 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I’ve just read what this promotion has done to the Belgian second division (Division 1B) leaving it with six teams. 

 

A team who finished 14th in the third tier are promoted as they were the only qualifiers for a professional license (and the new club of Lierse). 
 

The eighth team is Club Brugge Under 23s as there is no club willing to make the ‘professional’ step 

This just goes to show what a mess they made over the last couple of months.

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