Loris D'Haene

Defensive Midfielder - Mouscron
1 Oct 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Loris D'Haene

154 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 dugout

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

Back issues
139 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa De Bruyne

137 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mouscron lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

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Squad

Mathias Delorge 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 Thomas Fellaini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Yvan Mbianga out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Yvan Mbianga, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Laurent Doku 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 Laurent Doku is on it.

The dugout

Sacha Ziani 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Loris D'Haene

“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.

Market

The Radja Chadli talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief