[Football] Royale Union Saint Gilloise - 2025/26 Edition

[Slum_Wolf]

Union's pre-season for the 2025–26 campaign

July 1 v Union Rochefortoise (Belgian third tier, ACFF) in Nijlen

July 5 v Dutch champions PSV (closed doors)

July 12 v Feyenoord at De Kuip.

July 16 v TBC

July 19 or 20 v Club Brugge in the Belgian Supercup

 

[bristolgull]

Leeds have bid €10m for Sadiki from Union apparently, strange that we're not in for him.

 

[Brian Munich]

Leeds have bid €10m for Sadiki from Union apparently, strange that we're not in for him.

Do we need another centre mid that can play right back?

 

[bristolgull]

Wouldn’t say so right now, but what’s stopping us from signing him and loaning him out to Leeds for the season?

Do we need another centre mid that can play right back?

 

[AZ Gull]

Wouldn’t say so right now, but what’s stopping us from signing him and loaning him out to Leeds for the season?

Premier League rules.

 

[bristolgull]

Premier League rules.

Ok then loan him to another top 5 league? He’s been their star midfielder in a title winning campaign, it’s not like he’ll be short of suitors.

 

[Whitechapel]

The notion that we should sign somebody just because we probably could is baffling. It’s the kind of short sighted bollocks we rightly mock Chelsea for.

 

[Sussax]

Has anyone been there before? I’m in Belgium from tomorrow and have a few hours layover in Brussels before I go back home, only looks a 30 min walk from the station but no idea on club shop etc..

 

[Slum_Wolf]

Supercup confirmed 20th July...

 

[bristolgull]

The notion that we should sign somebody just because we probably could is baffling. It’s the kind of short sighted bollocks we rightly mock Chelsea for.

We did it with Undav when there were other clubs sniffing around for him, and I suspect we would have gone for Boniface had we been allowed. It’s naive to think that we’re too moral a club to sign a good player from a club we have links with.

 

[Slum_Wolf]

Has anyone been there before? I’m in Belgium from tomorrow and have a few hours layover in Brussels before I go back home, only looks a 30 min walk from the station but no idea on club shop etc..

Looks like the bar is open tomorrow but not the club shop...

Club House

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Point of sale Club House

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[Sussax]

Looks like the bar is open tomorrow but not the club shop...

Club House

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Point of sale Club House

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Bar it is then! Cheers!

 

[Whitechapel]

We did it with Undav when there were other clubs sniffing around for him, and I suspect we would have gone for Boniface had we been allowed. It’s naive to think that we’re too moral a club to sign a good player from a club we have links with.

I am aware we did it with Undav. That doesn’t however mean we have to sign every single player that ever leaves them because we have links to them.

 

[Brian Munich]

We did it with Undav when there were other clubs sniffing around for him, and I suspect we would have gone for Boniface had we been allowed. It’s naive to think that we’re too moral a club to sign a good player from a club we have links with.

We signed Undav coz we only had Welbeck and Maupay as senior strikers at the time he signed, and it turned out Maupay was being moved on as well. And I agree with you and think we would’ve signed Boniface, but we couldn’t so signed Pedro instead.

The main difference in those cases was that we needed players in their positions. This guy is a centre mid, which is a position that we’re fairly stacked in at the moment.

 

[Superphil]

Has anyone been there before? I’m in Belgium from tomorrow and have a few hours layover in Brussels before I go back home, only looks a 30 min walk from the station but no idea on club shop etc..

We visited a while back, the club shop is in the stadium building opposite their ‘official’ pub, but check on opening times for the shop, it was closed when we went, on a Saturday, which was during an international break IIRC.

 

[GT49er]

We did it with Undav when there were other clubs sniffing around for him, and I suspect we would have gone for Boniface had we been allowed. It’s naive to think that we’re too moral a club to sign a good player from a club we have links with.

So? I presume we needed him and intended to keep him - I don't think we knew in advance he wouldn't like it here and wanted to go home as soon as he could.