It is still a matter of time to see who will be at kick off against KV Oostende tomorrow. But the expectations are that Vincent Kompany fully chooses for the youth. Sven Kums and Adrien Trebel, for example, would not be in the selection for tomorrow according to Het Nieuwsblad. Read more »
Philippe Sandler chose number 34. In an interview with RSC Anderlecht, he explains more about that choice. It is namely the back number of Abdelhak Nouri, the player of Ajax who got a cardiac attack in 2017 during a friendly match with Ajax. Read more »
The Turkish Rizespor continues to look for a new defender in Belgium now that Antonio Milic has refused their offer. One of the candidates they now have in mind is James Lawrence. Het Laatste Nieuws knows that. Read more »
Is Anderlecht ready for the new season? Sceptical supporters see few departures and newcomers, but at Sporza sports director Michel Verschueren says that the seleciton has been sufficiently renewed compared to last season. "The reinforcements we achieved now allow us to be ambitious." Read more »
RSC Anderlecht played the past friendly games with a lot of young players. Vincent Kompany and Simon Davies don't look at the age, the best will play. And that is for everyone, nobody gets preferential treatment. Read more »
Sports director Michael Verschueren looks ahead to the start of the new season at Sporza. Verschueren is ambitious, but also modest after the historically bad season of 2018-2019. Read more »
Sieben Dewaele was twice in the starting eleven in this preparation, against Benfica and Hamburg. Dewaele admits that he thought about a departure at RSC Anderlecht, but the arrival of Kompany has changed everything.
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Alexis Saelemaekers was not very happy at the end of last season. He was given too little playing time and did not agree with that, but he never thought of a real departure: "My colors are purple and white." Read more »
Anderlecht see another U16 international leaving. Kazeem Olaigbe leaves purple and white for the English city of Southampton. Earlier, Nathan Ngoy, Gregory Descotte (both Standard) and Johan Bakayoko (PSV) already left Read more »
The U19 national team will play a friendly tournament in Japan in three weeks. National coach Jacky Mathijssen takes two Anderlecht players to the Far East: Halim Timassi (photo) and Mathis Suray. Read more »
Anderlecht's U21 lost with 2-1 in a friendly match against FC Dender. Mathis Suray (photo) did give Anderlecht the lead. Five minutes before the end, the winning goal fell from a penalty. Read more »
Sixteen-year-old Johan Bakayoko closes the door of the youth academy in Neerpede behind him and goes to the Dutch PSV. Bakayoko is also active with the national U17 and has been with RSC Anderlecht since last season. Before that he played at KV Mechelen and Club Brugge. Read more »
Anderlecht just posted the (provisional) team photo for the new football season on their social media. 37 players pose together with the technical staff. Philippe Sandler is also among them, Sidney Sam not. Read more »
Mardochee Nzita leaves RSC Anderlecht and opts for Serie B. Next season, he will play with Italian second division team A.C. Perugia. Nzita saw several youth players get a chance at the A-team, but he was not there and so he decided to leave. Read more »
It is not yet clear who will start the season as right back. Enough candidates, but none stand out. Will Alexandru Chipciu, after a loan, be the lucky one? The Romanian national coach is convinced that Chipciu can handle this position.
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Today Anderlecht welcomed Yari Verschaeren again at the club. He received some extra vacation because of the European Championships for U21 and his exams. Only one player is missing now: Knowledge Musona. But he must leave. Read more »
Several youngsters have been training and playing with the A-team in recent weeks. They received chances from Vincent Kompany to prove themselves. Two of them now remain: the 17-year-old Thierry Lutonda and Anouar Ait El Hadj. Read more »
During the fan day, the first team was presented to the public. Of all the youngsters who had had the chance in the last few weeks, two were able to show up today: Anouar Ait El Hadj and Thierry Lutonda. Absent players were Samir Nasri and Yari Verschaeren. Read more »
On September 11, Manchester City is organizing a gala game to say goodbye to Vincent Kompany. A team with Kompany and former teammates will compete against an all-starr team from the Premier League.
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Vincent Kompany has already given several youngsters the chance at the A-team. There are three that now can really claim a permanent place: Jérémy Doku, Thierry Lutonda and Sieben Dewaele. Read more »
It has become a good habit in the meantime: every new Anderlecht player answers ten questions from supporters. Samir Nasri also does not escape from it. "The level here has pleasantly surprised me," said the former star of Arsenal and Manchester City. Read more »
Anderlecht beat Benfica in a friendly match. The Mauves played with a very young team, but managed to take the lead at half time thanks to goals of Doku and Thelin late in the first half (0-2). After the break, Anderlecht played with even more unexperienced youngsters while Benfica brought a few additional first team players into the team. This resulted in more pressure and a goal of Chiquino. The victory didn't escape Anderlecht anymore though: 1-2. Read more »
The program for the Cup of Belgium for the U21 is known. The first assignment for Craig Bellamy's troops is to survive the group stage. In that group phase, RSC Anderlecht will play against Oud-Heverlee Leuven, Beerschot and Tessenderlo. Read more »
At the beginning of July Elvis Mehanovic went on a trial to the Dutch Fortuna Sittard. But the Dutch team doesn't want to continue with the 19-year-old striker and has sent him back to Neerpede. Mehanovic also has no future with Purple & White. Read more »
Luka Adzic played with the Serbian U21 at the European Championship and was therefore entitled to a few days of extra vacation, which he also received from RSC Anderlecht. But Adzic thanked and asked the club if he could resume sooner, so he joined training on Monday. Read more »
Emilio Ferrera, now coach of Dudelange in Luxembourg but two years ago still the coach of the purple and white U21, looks back on his work in Het Laatste nieuws. Read more »
Patrick De Wilde has been appointed by the Football Association of Lithuania as Technical Director. Among other things, he has to work with Anderlecht.
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Surprising face on training at Beerschot, where Kobe Cools signed present on the first day of training camp in Delden in the Netherlands.
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