The Mouscron Gazette
Match8 Apr 2030
Every point is an argument now for Mouscron
Position 16 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market8 Apr 2030
Darhein Sayala 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Dries Boyata signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dries Boyata and Mouscron agree another 4 years.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Words exchanged at Mouscron
Dries Boyata 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dries Mertens 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.
Squad8 Apr 2030
Mouscron count the cost of losing Marc Böhm
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout8 Apr 2030
Lois Januzaj 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 dugout8 Apr 2030
No hiding place for Tristen Alliet
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tristen Alliet, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Apr 2030
Kota Nakayama 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.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Raymond Matlamela in it
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Adnan Kompany at KV Oostende
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jacques Ménard