The Mouscron Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
Mouscron sell their best player to RC Lens
$22.4M 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Simon Boyata keeps Mouscron in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Thomas Kompany out for 69 days
69 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.
Match26 Aug 2026
Mouscron bow out of the cup
Club Brugge go through and Mouscron go home, 1‑7 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Kevin Castagne was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 30. 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Club Brugge leaves Mouscron explaining themselves
1-7, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $22.4M sale of Eden Courtois
He is going to RC Lens, the club has $22.4M 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Thomas Rousseau hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mouscron turn down Las Palmas for Youri Chadli
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
In brief
- Market Mouscron sign Viktor Damjanić for $590.0K
- Match Lois Vanaken among the goals in a wild afternoon
- The terraces The town asked, and Mouscron paid $590.0K