Jonathan De Bie

Goalkeeper - Mouscron
28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jonathan De Bie

52 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sebastián Valenzuela hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Nacer Onana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Mouscron

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Mousa Fellaini steps up from the Mouscron academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mousa Fellaini has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Thorgan Onana steps up from the Mouscron academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thorgan Onana has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Thorgan Carrasco steps up from the Mouscron academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thorgan Carrasco has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mousa Onana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

The ground is getting bigger

The plans are signed off at a capacity of 3902. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.

In brief

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50 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Livio Milts asks to leave Mouscron

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Mouscron baulk at the price for Steeven Assengue

Standard Liege wanted more than $130.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Mousa Onana in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mouscron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Denzel Owusu

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denzel Owusu, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sébastien Louis is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Nacer Onana has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Mouscron will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Nacer Onana asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

An aura around August De Wannemacker

Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Mouscron. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.

Market

Mousa Onana linked with a move away

The name of Mousa Onana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

48 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mousa Onana hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Mouscron baulk at the price for Kjell Peersman

KAA Gent wanted more than $980.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Nacer Onana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

The step up is real for Pele Arganese-McDermott

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Late improvement for Mousa Onana

At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mousa Onana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Leander Chadli

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Simon Meunier has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Mouscron will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

41 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Adnan Hazard hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

Nacer Onana was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Mouscron

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Toby Meunier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Michy Tielemans plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Lois Mignolet’s exile

8 goals in 33 games at Bristol City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Mouscron updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jonathan De Bie

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan De Bie, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Mousa Onana knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Benjamín Droguett still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Mouscron would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market

Mouscron put Sebastián Valenzuela up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Sebastián Valenzuela may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

40 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yohan Mollo asks to leave Mouscron

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Nacer Onana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toby Meunier is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

A step back for Mousa Onana at Mouscron

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Loan watch

Sébastien Louis keeps scoring at AS Nancy

20 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

When it matters, Simon Meunier plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Toby Meunier story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Toby Meunier signs something — a contract at Mouscron or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Tony Andreu asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

38 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sebastián Valenzuela asks to leave Mouscron

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A falling-out at Mouscron

Mousa Onana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Mouscron

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Toby Meunier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Mateo Cardona wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Mouscron know it.

Squad

Mouscron are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Nacer Onana has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Mouscron will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Toby Januzaj gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Mousa Onana story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mousa Onana signs something — a contract at Mouscron or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Adnan Hazard asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

37 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mousa Onana hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Nacer Onana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Mouscron count the cost of losing Axel Chadli

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mousa Onana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nacer Onana

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Michy Tielemans gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Michy Tielemans is on it.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Lois Mignolet’s exile

8 goals in 31 games at Bristol City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Mouscron updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

Leander Chadli linked with a move away

The name of Leander Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Mateo Cardona knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mateo Cardona trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

35 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Mauro Lenaerts: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mouscron have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Mousa Onana in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mouscron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Mouscron

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Toby Meunier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Luis Torres wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Mouscron can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Toby Meunier gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Toby Meunier is on it.

The dugout

Mousa Onana knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Lois Mignolet’s exile

7 goals in 29 games at Bristol City — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Mouscron updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

Nacer Onana linked with a move away

The name of Nacer Onana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Mouscron put Mousa Onana up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Mousa Onana may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

33 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Tony Andreu asks to leave Mouscron

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Tony Andreu says Mouscron went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Nacer Onana and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Mousa Onana falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Sebastián Valenzuela wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Mouscron can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hérold Goulon

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

31 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Hérold Goulon asks to leave Mouscron

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Mousa Onana in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mouscron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toby Meunier is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Didier Amou-Djaba

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Mouscron will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jonathan De Bie

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan De Bie, and the manager let it.

The dugout

When it matters, Toby Meunier plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

Denzel Owusu moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Mouscron than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

Market

Nacer Onana linked with a move away

The name of Nacer Onana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Denzel Owusu asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

24 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mouscron's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mousa Onana

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

Mousa Onana was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Mouscron cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Transfer targets

Mouscron rebuffed over Andres Labie

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zulte Waregem have kept their man, and Mouscron go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Mouscron come up short against Westerlo

Westerlo left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Adnan Doku falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

Jonathan De Bie gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Jason Tielemans answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

20 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Leander Openda lights up a European night for Mouscron

1‑1 against Cherno More, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Leander Openda was at the centre of the description.

Match

The wait goes on for Mouscron

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout

Livio Milts: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mouscron have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

Mousa Onana was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Mousa Onana was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Toby Meunier falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Mouscron rescue it on 94 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Cherno More had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

Mousa Onana left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Mousa Onana will call it something else in private.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jonathan De Bie

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

18 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Mousa Onana beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 49. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The cup run ends for Mouscron

0‑1 against Racing Genk, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

Mouscron come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of Como. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad

A falling-out at Mouscron

Mousa Onana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Mouscron cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

The terraces

Mouscron supporters have found a favourite in Toby Meunier

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Toby Meunier has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

No hiding place for Michy Tielemans

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michy Tielemans, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at Mouscron

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adnan Doku was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Jason Tielemans faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jason Tielemans after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

13 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Leander Openda lights up a European night for Mouscron

1‑1 against Zaglebie, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Leander Openda was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings

Livio Milts runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Toby Meunier at 21 — 8.04

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Toby Meunier did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mousa Onana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Radja Hazard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

Mouscron supporters have found a favourite in Toby Meunier

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Toby Meunier has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Mouscron see off KV Oostende

Three points for Mouscron, 1‑0 the final word against KV Oostende in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Mateo Cardona stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mateo Cardona and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Mouscron lose Marcel Perrin

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

12 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mouscron's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The step up is real for Jur Schipper

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Mousa Onana falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

Radja Hazard was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Anderlecht take the points off Mouscron

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Tony Andreu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Jason Tielemans answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

When it matters, Nacer Onana plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Mouscron pick somebody else ahead of Jonathan De Bie

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

6 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mousa Onana

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at Mouscron until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Ivan Božić turns down Mouscron

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Altach keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Jablonec tell Mouscron: Eduard Sobol is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A falling-out at Mouscron

Radja Hazard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leander Chadli is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Mouscron are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

Michy Tielemans named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Michy Tielemans is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

When it matters, Simon Meunier plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief