In
Kenny Saief (mid) KAA Gent – loan made permanent; Ognjen Vranjes (def) AEK Athens; Elias Cobbaut (def) Mechelen; Ivan Santini (att) Caen; Evgeny Makarenko (mid) Kortrijk; Zakaria Bakkali (mid) Valencia; Luka Adzic (mid) Crvena Zvezda; Kristal Abazaj (mid) Skenderbeu; Ilias Moutha-Sebtaoui (gk) Man United U23; Thomas Didillon (gk) Metz; Knowledge Musona (mid) Oostende; Antonio Milic (def) Oostende; Landry Dimata (att) Wolfsburg – on loan; Isaac Thelin (att) Waasland-Beveren – end of loan;
Out
Trezeguet (mid) Kasimpasa; Stephane Badji (sp) (mid) Bursaspor; Uros Spajic (r) (def) Krasnodar; Wout Faes (def) Oostende; Jorn Vancamp (att) Beerschot; Idrissa Doumbia (sp) (mid) Akhmat Grozny; Aaron Leya Iseka (mid) Toulouse; Alexandru Chipciu (sp) (att) Sparta Prague – on loan; Olivier Deschacht (sp) (def) released; Dylan Lambrecth (att) released; Massimo Bruno (sp) (mid) RB Leipzig – end of loan; Matz Sels (r) (gk) Newcastle – end of loan; Lazar Markovic (sp) (mid) Liverpool – end of loan; Henry Onyekuru (sp) (att) Everton – end of loan;
Target
As always the only goal is winning the title and the improved depth of the squad suggests that this is an achievable goal. Hard to see them finishing outside the top three.