In this thread we can discuss all the Belgian players playing outside of Belgium. At Feyenoord we have Bart Goor and Thomas Buffel. Gil Swerts plays for ADO Den Haag. I know PSV has a few Belgian players. Wesley Sonck plays for Ajax. And I'm sure there are a lot more. Feel free to add to the list and let's discuss.
AJAX has wesley sonck, tom soetaers and tom de mul de mul scored an amazing goal in the season opening win
Hamburg also has Daniel Van Buyten. The fourth keeper from Chelsea is also a Belgian, Yves Makabu Ma Kalamby. And at Boca Juniors there's a Belgian left defender in the reserve squad, Michael Yurasowski.
Buffel didn't play today, he's still in Gullit's dog house I guess. I think Goor played well today, I didn't read any negative comments towards him.
Tim Caluwe plays at Willem II. The former keeper of WII, what was his name? He was also international, went to England. He got injured bad so his season is over.
It's Tom Caluwe. The keeper's name is Geert De Vlieger. He was to compete with David James at manchester city but tore his achilles.
A lot of players in Holland however: -Stein Huysegems at AZ -Stefaan Tanghe and Hans Somers at Utrecht. -Maarten Martens and Jochen Janssen at RKC -Stijn Vreven at Vitesse -Chris De Witte at FC Groningen -Kevin Van Dessel, Sven VAn den Broeck,... at Roda JC -Kris Mampaey at Den Bosch ... and further Sven Vermant at Schalke 04 a lot of Belgians in Austria some in serie B some in Turkey few in France even fewer in England
I just got copy of the Belgian Foot Magazine. I'm very happy to get this even if I don't read French.
some other players : Filip Daems(DEF) - Gençlerbirligy Ronny Capercic(GK) - (still at?) Betis ? Erwin Lemmens(GK) - Espanyol Nelzo Lembi(DEF/MID) - Kaiserslautern (congolees, but has a belgian pasport) Hans Somers(MID) - Trabzonspor Jean-Marc Gillet(GK) - Bari Joos Valgaeren(DEF) - Celtic Luis Oliviera(ATT)- somewhere in Italy, Como? or Cantania, or somewhere else Renard Genaux(MID) - Udinese Regis Genaus - (DEF)(still at?) Udinese ? Didier Dheedene(DEF/MID) - Austria Wien Michael Goosens(MID/ATT) - Sturm Graz Tom Peeters(MID) - (still at?) Sunderland ? Nico Vaesen(GK) - Birmingham or Crystal Palace ?? Eric Deflandre(DEF)(ex-fcb)- O. Lyon (4-ever in my hart!!) Branko Strupar(ATT) - ex-Derby , back in Croatia Phillip Leonard(DEF) - (still at?) AS monaco ? Joris Van Hout(MID/ATT) , Peter Van houdt(ATT) ,Stassin(DEF/MID) - Borussia MönchenGladbach Bob Peeters(ATT) - Millwall Brian Vandenbussche(GK?) - Sparta Sam Ysebaert(ATT) - MVV Tim Aelbrecht(MID/ATT) - Vitesse and also Eric Gerets is coach of Wolfsburg
Hans Somers is at FC Utrecht now and DeFlandre at Standard. Don't know if Oliveira still plays but i don't think so.
Oliveira still plays for Catania. Gaspercic is at Albacete I believe. Stassin probably returns to FC Brussels. Leonard is with a smaller team from the French first league now. Vaesen at Birmingham. Tom Peeters, I don't know. Regis Genaux can't find a club. Olivier Renard is still at Udinese, I presume.
Philippe Léonard returns to Standard after 6 seasons with Monaco an a couple of months at Nice. Hopefully he can still play at his old level.
I'm affraid he's had his best time. At Nice he was just one of the players, nothing exceptional. He's not very old, I believe though (only 30?), but the big talent he was showing in the beginning has never really come out. Some good seasons at Standard, some gray seasons at Monaco,... Same story as Michael Goossens.
that's thrue, leonard isn't that good anymore, It a shame for such a talented player, Let's hop that not the same happens for Daniel Van Buyten...
Strange thing is that we haven't seen Van Buyten play very well yet. I remember his time at Charleroi, where he was an average striker, then Standard, where he just learnt the basics of defending and then he went to Marseille very fast, where he played some good seasons, but the Belgian folks could hardly see him play. You can't say he played very good matches for the Belgian team either, so I hope we can finally see the real Van Buyten IN BELGIUM.
Thomas Buffel saw the pitch for about two minutes in Feyenoord's 1-1 draw with Vitesse. Bart Goor played for 70 minutes. Neither really did much to talk about. Buffel is being looked at by three clubs Marseille, Borussia Monchengladbach and Anderlecht, but with the transfer window so close, I don't think he's going anywhere. Good work everyone else with all the Belgian players. Would someone so kindly make a Belgain National Team Thread? I'd be interested to know who plays and what you guys think your chances are at making the 2006 World Cup.
As much as I like Buffel, I don't think he would fit into Anderlecht this season. Sonck would be a much better signing, as Panicfc said.
I have read in a newspaper that Sonck is not really interested by Anderlecht.So if the guy is not motivated he can stay in Holand. Another belgian player abroad: Roberto Bisconti.He signed with OGC Nice (L1 in France). It's another good player that leaves Standard.They buy a lot but also sell a lot.How can you build a good team with so much changes years after years ? They should take a look at Club Brugge and learn how to manage a club !
Now only Dragutinovic has to go and they have sold their soul completely. It seems lazio isn't interested anymore, so he guess he will stay.
We've got another one not yet mentioned: Tim Smolders from RBC He was doing a good job yesterday against Vitesse with 2 goals.
He comes from FC Brugge, who bought him from Westerlo at the age of 18. He never really got a chance to play in Brugge (except for some games at the end of the season) so I think it's for the best he went to RBC.