Clearly, after a rotten year in 2024, Jan Vertonghen is not done with bad luck in 2025. The captain of RSC Anderlecht was injured again in training.
The year 2024 will have been very difficult to live through for Jan Vertonghen. Injured in the home stretch of last season, he ultimately missed Euro 2024 and hesitated for a long time before extending his contract at Sporting Anderlecht.
Vertonghen feared one thing: doing the year too long. And his first half of the 2024-2025 season seemed to confirm his fears: after twice 90 minutes with an armband on his arm at the start of the season, a new injury initially announced as minor ultimately kept him away from the field… until the end of the year .
The 37-year-old veteran made his return to the group during the last match of 2024, to the great relief of David Hubert and all of Lotto Park, even if he did not appear in the game against Dender. Given the disappointing level of Zanka, who has become the public’s Turkish head, we imagined “Sterke Jan” quickly regaining a starting place.
Anderlecht communicates
It won’t be right away. THE Newspaper tells us in fact that a small disaster took place at RSCA training this week: Jan Vertonghen suffered a new injury, this time to his ankle, which apparently turned following contact.
We still don’t know the extent of the damage: a scanner will provide more information. While waiting to see if the ligaments are affected, we can already fear an absence of the Mauve & Blanc captain in the quarter-final of the Croky Cup at Beerschot… or even against FC Bruges next Sunday.
Olivier Renard is actively looking for a central defender, given the fragility of Vertonghen and the unreliability of Mathias “Zanka” Jorgensen. The latter was announced for departure this winter; if Jan Vertonghen is absent for a long period of time, he is likely to have to finish the season at Anderlecht (much to the displeasure of the supporters).
UPDATE :
RSC Anderlecht communicated about Jan Vertonghen’s injury, and provided an important clarification: it is not a relapse of the previous injury. “The first examinations revealed an injury to the left ankle. Additional examinations have yet to confirm the seriousness of the injury. This injury is not linked to the previous one.”
