The Union gives Loïc Lapoussin (28 years old) another chance.
We don’t count them anymore…
The left midfielder has been training again since the end of last week, and could be selected for the cup quarter-final on Wednesday evening (8:45 p.m.) at Antwerp.
Lapoussin was left out of the group for the summit matches against Club Bruges (2-2) and La Gantoise (1-3) just before the winter break, after missing two training sessions.
No details concerning the procedure which led to this reclassification have so far been revealed.
We just know that the club’s management has left it to the technical staff to manage the matter, according to The Newspaper (https://tinyurl.com/4jm2bj77).
A transfer does not seem to be on the agenda.
The Union hoped to sell Lapoussin for around two million last summer, but did not find a buyer.
There is currently no concrete interest either.
The Malagasy’s contract expires in June, but the Union still has until March 31 to exercise a unilateral option for an additional season.
However, she does not rule out the possibility of letting his contract expire, so that he can leave the club for free after the current season.
But in the meantime, given Henok Teklab’s injury, Sébastien Pocognoli has no other left-hander at his disposal than Ousseynou Niang, Lapoussin is therefore clearly not too much.
Lazare Amani has his exit voucher
The Saint-Gillois winter transfer window must above all serve to lighten a core that is too abundant in terms of quantity, since there were 29 players under contract in the first half of the season.
The Brussels management did not delay; announcing from January 1 the departures in the form of loans with option to purchase of Casper Terho for Paderborn, and Elton Kabangu for Heart of Midlothian.
Nice transfers for those interested, by the way.
They do not go to the galleys or to the STO (Compulsory Labor Service) of disastrous memory.
Another player will not be selected in the event of an offer deemed interesting by all parties: Lazare Amani.
The Ivorian midfielder, who arrived at the Union in the summer of 2021, could already have left during the last transfer window, but the offers that arrived did not suit the Union.
If Pocognoli had revived it for a moment, he did not use it for a single minute in the league in December.
Suffice to say that a departure would suit everyone.
Mathias Rasmussen is also asking questions after four consecutive matches without taking off the bench at the end of 2024.
A situation which could generate interest for a loan, even if it is hard to imagine the Union letting two central midfielders slip away in the same transfer window.
Direction Castellon for Traoré
A third departure is more concretely about to be finalized: that of Mamadou Traoré.
The Union is in advanced discussions with CD Castellon, to which he had already been loaned throughout last season, with a D3 championship title at stake.
The 22-year-old Malian winger, already on Valencian soil, should sign a permanent transfer there which could be announced this Tuesday.
Returning to Brussels this summer, Traoré was only allowed twenty minutes of play against Charleroi (1-0), this season in the first team.
In terms of arrivals, the Brussels club considers itself ready and in principle does not intend to recruit to strengthen the core for the second half of the season.
But transferring this winter to already prepare for 2025-2026 remains a way of proceeding that appeals to English investors.
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