Zinho Januzaj

Goalkeeper - Mouscron
2 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Zinho Januzaj

15 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Umar Collins damages knee ligaments — 65 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.

Match

7 matches without a win for Mouscron

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Timothy Vertonghen

Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thorgan Tielemans 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

Tempers go at Mouscron

Zinho Januzaj 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Toby Boyata

“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.

Match

Honours even between Mouscron and KV Oostende

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Hans Carrasco: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

The form table has caught Toby Boyata

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jason De Ketelaere

64 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Toby Boyata at Mouscron

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Toby Boyata is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Mouscron leaking at the back

6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Player ratings

Lois De Bruyne was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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

David Bates 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. Thorgan Tielemans 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.

Match

Mouscron come up short against Waasland-Beveren

Waasland-Beveren left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Antoine Lejoly 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.

Player ratings

Timothy Vertonghen in the eights

A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

3 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mouscron sell their best player to Club Brugge

$13.8M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Squad

The knee: Jason De Ketelaere out for 112 days

112 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mouscron lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Sint-Truiden come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Mouscron did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Terms done: Lois De Bruyne is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Cardiff City waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Timothy Januzaj turns Vitesse down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $13.8M sale of Timothy Alderweireld

He is going to Club Brugge, the club has $13.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Player ratings

Vintage Lois De Bruyne — 7.87

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.87, and nobody on the pitch better.

Transfer targets

Mouscron baulk at the price for Patrik Gunnarsson

KV Kortrijk wanted more than $1.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom

Mouscron go back to the board over Patrik Gunnarsson

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.8M — a club that wants Patrik Gunnarsson enough to be asked twice.

In brief