The Mouscron Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A debut Timothy Witsel will not forget — 8.40
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 2 on the scoresheet, 8.40 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market3 Aug 2026
Timothy Witsel attracts admirers
The name of Timothy Witsel has come up in conversations Mouscron were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mouscron
Bruno Dupont 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lois Vertonghen pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Mouscron
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timothy Witsel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match1 Aug 2026
Mouscron get the job done against Zulte Waregem
A 3‑1 win over Zulte Waregem, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
One of their own: Timothy Witsel
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Leander De Ketelaere was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nacer De Bruyne signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nacer De Bruyne and Mouscron agree another 1 years.
In brief
- Transfer targets Mouscron try to borrow Nick Homan
- Transfer targets A loan move for Hans Mignolet is in the works
- The dugout The manager’s verdict