Eupen’s Henry Onyekuru has signed for Everton but he won’t be seen at Goodison Park for at least 12 months. When agent Mogi Bayat was given exclusive rights to manage the player’s transfer, Anderlecht were always going to get a sniff of the action. Bayat is extremely close to the Brussels club and so it… Read More »
Later today, Sint Truiden face Eupen in a top of the table clash in Belgium’s second division. The home team’s coach is 34 year-old Yannick Ferrera and with his team eight points clear of today’s Qatari-backed opponents, Belgofoot recently caught up with a young coach who has packed a lot into his career to-date. Ferrera… Read More »
Half of the Belgian squad play in the Premier League. Eden Hazard and Vincent Kompany are arguably more famous than their counterparts in Roy Hodgson’s squad. But not every Belgian footballer is a household name and of those on the fringes of the national team, by far the most interesting is a player who’s better… Read More »
It’s March 1, 2011, at Neerpeerde, home of the Anderlecht Academy. Charleroi U17s are the visitors. Within two minutes, Anderlecht take the lead through a fragile-looking boy who is later elected “man” of the match. But of course he is not a man; he is a boy and he is a year younger than the… Read More »
Chelsea loanee Thorgan Hazard is favourite to win Belgium’s Golden Boot – awarded to the best player in the calendar year – in a couple of weeks’ time. The question people are divided about is whether he will receive the award as a Zulte Waregem player or as a member of the Anderlecht squad. The… Read More »
Early in the 2011-2012 season, Racing Genk’s Dutch coach Mario Been warned Kevin De Bruyne about signing for a big club only to rot on the bench. De Bruyne should have been so lucky. Been’s prophecy has come true but the young midfielder has not even made the Chelsea bench in most games and he’s… Read More »
Ahead of the match with Scotland, Belgian keeper Thibaut Courtois spoke to journalists from the Belgian paper La Dernière Heure. Here’s what he said about Chelsea, Peter Cech, the World Cup and Simon Mignolet. On staying at Atletico Madrid “Chelsea and José Mourinho wanted me to return to Stamford Bridge this season, either that or… Read More »
Back in August, I was asked a few questions about Marouane Fellaini – then a target for several clubs. Now he’s joined Manchester United, it’s worth adding them to the blog. Interview re. Marouane Fellaini (15 August, 2013) Q. Marouane Fellaini spent two years with Standard Liege in Belgium before moving to Everton in 2008.… Read More »
The ‘Top Ten Newcomers’ to the Jupiler Pro League include some youngsters with big reputations, a few returnees and a couple of relatively unknown quantities. Three of the 10 are from Anderlecht and there are two each from Standard Liege and Club Brugge. Fabien Camus (28, Racing Genk) The Franco-Tunisian midfielder was a member of… Read More »
Here are my ‘Top Ten Youngsters’ to follow in the Jupiler Pro League. To be included, they must have been under 20 at the start of the season. I’ve not included Dennis Praet as he’s too well known and I’ll consider him for my ‘Top Ten Players in the Jupiler Pro League’. Three of the… Read More »