Jérémy Doku has his first selection for the Red Devils in his pocket. Coach Vincent Kompany is especially happy for Doku, Verschaeren and Dimata. He especially hopes that they return stronger and with a lot of experience. Read more »
Monday, the players had a day off, but yesterday the preparations for next Friday's game against KV Oostende started. Michel Vlap trained, but on Sunday he was still missing from the selection due to an injury. Read more »
Albert Sambi Lokonga lost his starting place to Adrien Trebel after the match against KV Mechelen. However, his entourage is not worried and knows that this is part of football. Brother Paul-José Mpoku remains positive about his little brother's current role as a substitute. Read more »
Daam Foulon (photo) signed for Benevento. After a detour at Waasland-Beveren, Anderlecht's youth product makes a dream transfer to the Serie A. Foulon is the next of the Anderlecht-generation from 1999 to progress to the top.
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No victory for Vincent Kompany on his debut as head coach. After the game he spoke calmy to the press and was clear in his analysis. "Actually we had to win, but in the last five minutes I felt that things were about to go wrong." Read more »
None Michel Vlap yesterday against Mouscron. "Vlap was slightly injured", Vincent Kompany stated afterwards at the press conference. "He sustained a slight strain against STVV. He therefore did not a have normal week." Read more »
Anderlecht had a weak game against a rigid Mouscron. It played against ten man from the end of the first half, but never managed to creat a really played opportunity. Dimata appeared to break the spell with a penalty, but in added time, Mouscron scored the draw. The pain points reappeared: it is not possible to control a match and goal orientation and the ability to score in the zone of truth are lacking. Read more »
Bogdan Mykhaylichenko sees his strong debut at Anderlecht rewarded with a pre-selection for the national team. National coach Andrei Shevchenko added Mykhaylichenko to the 36-man squad he announced ten days ago. Read more »
"From a well-paid player he becomes a well-paid coach," CEO Karel Van Eetvel said of Vincent Kompany. But, what can we understand by 'well paid'? Het Nieuwsblad analyzes Kompany's salaries. Conclusion: he now earn a net third of what he was earned as a player. Read more »
Vincent Kompany is currently the youngest trainer in the highest division in Belgium. Before he was appointed, that honour went to Hernan Losada, former-Anderlecht player and now coach of Beerschot that recently promoted to the Pro League. He's not the youngest Anderlecht coach ever though, but we have to go back a long way to find a younger one. Read more »
According to Sport / Voetbalmagazine, Anderlecht has three main candidates for the vacancy of new striker. We already knew Lukas Nmecha (Manchester City) adn Emmanuel Arokodare (Valmiera). The third names is Jeremy Ebobisse. Read more »
In the Latvian media Tolu Arokodare tells that he really wants to go to Anderlecht and does not understand that his team Valmiera is obstructing it. "Anderlecht is the ideal next step in my career", says Arokodare. "Valmiera could catch a record sum." Read more »
When Vincent Kompany joined the club last year he knew that RSC Anderlecht was not on the right track, only it was further away than he had thought. If he passes the torch to another trainer, the intention is that he will give him a healthy solid club. Read more »
After the welcome speech by Karel Van Eetvelt, it is up to Vincent Kompany. He starts by explaining why he made the decision to retire as a player. The former Red Devil admits that his latest injury was one too many. Read more »
Karel Van Eetvelt starts the press conference with a word of thanks to the journalists for respecting the safety regulations. But above all he would like to thank Frank Vercauteren for the past months.
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The afternoon news programs on VRT and VTM naturally went deeper into the appointment of Vincent Kompany as coach of Anderlecht. The striking coaching of Kompany during his inactivity in recent weeks and especially last week has proven to be the trigger. "Five days ago, Kompany decided to become a coach." Read more »
Anderlecht has officially announced the career turn of Vincent Kompany. The defender has committed himself for four years as head coach of the club. "We are all surprised by the timing, but knew that this was the purpose", says Kompany, who also praised Frank Vercauteren. Read more »
Shortly before the hour, Michel Vlap appeared to injure his groin. The Dutchman continued playing, but he was substituted ten minutes later. Vlap was clearly not at peace and grumbled loudly. After the game, both Vlap adn coach Frank Vercauteren returned to 'the incident'. Read more »
Letvian club Valmiera FC released a press article saying their Nigerian striker Emmanuel Toluwalase Arokodare and his agent are trying to force a deal to Anderlecht. 19 year old Arokodare has already been linked to Anderlecht at the end of July. Read more »
Anderlecht won the second match of the new season and climb to the third position in the ranking. Mykhaylichenko opened the score after a nice dribble and excellent shot. Dimata doubled the lead with a head and Percy Tau finished the job with a sublime goal. Sankhon was excluded with a red card.
Vincent Kompany aimed on this weekend's game against Sint-Truiden to make his return on the pitch for RSC Anderlecht. But it doesn't seem likely that will be the fact. Kompany didn't participate this week in group training, although he was training individually. Read more »
Thomas Didillon took the time to say goodbye through his social media yesterday. The goalkeeper exchanged RSC Anderlecht for Cercle Bruges yesterday. After the arrival of Hendrik Van Crombrugge, he had become redundant in Brussels. Read more »
Since a couple of days, Nicolas Anelka has been spotted on the Anderlecht training grounds. The former strikes of 'Les Blues' is letting his son Kais train with Anderlecht's U13-squad. Tactically, Kais isn't yet on the same level as his teammates. However, he has shown a few nice skills already. Read more »
After almost twenty months, Landry Dimata can call himself a footballer again. He played for an hour against KV Mechelen. "It was an emotional day," he said afterward. "It was so good to be back on the field." Read more »
The Anderlecht wants to loan Lucas Lissens next season to gain experience at the highest level. La Dernière Heure knows it. The 19 year-old defender is a fisture in the U21 and has a contract until 2021. The intention is to extended it. Read more »
Tonight the time has come: after five months we are going to play 'real' football again. Anderlecht will go to KV Mechelen for the first league game of the new season. In an empty stadium, Anderlecht can start with the starting team they endend up with in September. Read more »
Today is the day, after 5 months of abstinence we will finally play an official match. The first game of a new season, KV Mechelen in an empty AFAS stadium. Read more »
RSC Anderlecht will receive STVV in an empty Lotto Park on August 16. Vincent Kompany hopes to be ready to play by then after his injury to the adductors. So Sunday's game against KV Mechelen comes too early for the defender. Read more »
A long-awaited transfer has finally been made official: Percy Tau will play for RSC Anderlecht next season. Sports director Peter Verbeke immediately indicates that Tau should not be expected on the field immediately due to lack of preparation. Read more »
Tomorrow, the federal expert group "Celeval" will come together to discuss professional football in the province of Antwerp. Then we normally know whether Sunday's match between KV Mechelen and Anderlecht will be played. Read more »
RSC Anderlecht officially presented Bogdan Mykhaylichenko with a video on social media. He signs a contract with Purple & White until 2024. And because Mykhaylichenko is not really easy to pronounce, he proposes to call him "Mykha". Read more »
In the last minutes of the game against Lille, Elias Cobbaut had to step aside with pain on the left calf. Fortunately, the injury turned out to be not too bad and the competition start against KV Mechelen is not jeopardized. Read more »
Vincent Kompany has already completed several exercises on the training field. The first league game next week is still too early, but a return in August may be possible. Two weeks ago, Kompany injured his adductors. Read more »
