Benfica Lissabon, the opponent of RSCA in the last preliminary round of the Champions League, played a friendly game against Estoril last Saturday. The team of Trapattoni won 0-2. Zahovic and Vilela scored during the first half. The Portuguese competition starts within two weeks.

Ex-Anderlecht-striker Ivica Mornar, who moved from Anderlecht to Portsmouth last winter, has reached an agreement with Rennes for one season on a rental base. Portsmouth is also interested in Aruna, but the offer of the English team was rated highly insufficient by Sporting Anderlecht.

A survey of the newspapercomments from Tuesday 20 July.

A short survey of the newspapercomments from Monday 19 July.

Jelle Van Damme changes Ajax Amsterdam for Southampton. The defender of the Red Devils reached an agreement with the English club, Ajax and Southampton already had an agreement about the transfer. Ajax will earn 3,5 million Euro. Some time ago RSC Anderlecht were also interested to get the defender to the Astridpark.

Ex-Anderlecht-defender Olivier Doll has found a new employer. After his holiday in Sicily, Doll will sign a 3-year contract with Lokeren. FC Brussels and Bergen were also interested in the defender but Doll eventually chose Lokeren, where he'll meet Filip De Wilde and Zvonko Milojevic again.

Sporting Anderlecht is going to talk with Mbo Mpenza at the end of the week. According to 'Het Laatste Nieuws' Anderlecht want to pay 1,25 million Euro for the striker. Sporting can easily conclude the transfer with the Red Devil, but the problem is situated with Moeskroen and Mpenza's ex-club Galatasaray. The Turkish club still has a percentage on the transfer amount.

According to 'het Nieuwsblad' Nenad Jestrovic has asked RSCA permission to leave. Jestrovic (28) still has a contract until 2005, but normaly Anderlecht won't work against a possible departure of the Serbian striker. His transfer may clear the way for the arrival of Mbo Mpenza. Besiktas already showed an interest in Jestrovic.

With the arrivel of Fabrice Ehret, Bart Goor may now certainly forget about coming back to Anderlecht. "At the moment there's 80% chance that I'm staying in Berlin", says Goor. "I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I've got a proposition from Anderlecht, but it wasn't really what I expected." Apparently they weren't 100% convinced that they wanted me", says Goor in GvA and Het Nieuwsblad.

The Supercup between Anderlecht and Club Bruges can't be played on the foreseen date 31 July, according to GvA. Anderlecht are having the Open House the day before which means the stadium isn't free to use. Club Brugge have to play the qualifying round of the CL the wednesday before and after and aren't willing to play that day. Both clubs now have to look for an alternative.