The Mouscron Gazette
Squad9 Jul 2029
Mousa De Bruyne damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market9 Jul 2029
Mouscron say no — this time
The offer from Vitesse for Radja Chadli was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Radja Chadli is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Westerlo tell Mouscron: Fernand Gouré 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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at Mouscron
Mathias Delorge 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.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Mouscron baulk at the price for Mamadou Balde
Club Brugge wanted more than $250.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Thomas Fellaini 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.
Transfer targets9 Jul 2029
Mouscron ask about Gelson Martins
A loan enquiry to Atlético Madrid: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout9 Jul 2029
Mathias Delorge 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
- Market Mouscron and Juan José Rosa are talking past each other
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Loris D'Haene
- Market The Mathias Delorge question follows Mouscron around