From Patrick Vanoppen to Ajax and the Frenchman in a wheelchair with a dressing gown: football club Beerschot has a tradition of takeovers

And now the Japanese are also eyeing the chairman's chair of Beerschot. It is not the first acquirer to settle on the Kiel. There was Patrick Vanoppen, the man in the bear suit. And there was a Frenchman in a wheelchair and dressing gown.