The Mouscron Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
Dries Tielemans damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Olivier Dumas’s move to Sint-Truiden falls through
The deal that would have taken Olivier Dumas to Sint-Truiden has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Mouscron with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Nacer Nainggolan keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mouscron may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
No sign of nerves from Thorgan Boyata at 18 — 7.70
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thorgan Boyata did not need any: 7.70, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market7 Feb 2028
Mees Kreekels 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Mouscron say no — this time
The offer from KV Kortrijk for Zane Monlouis 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Toby Castagne wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Mouscron hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Dries Vanaken runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Nolan Bouteix gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nolan Bouteix has just signed for Mouscron, and for once the answer mattered.
In brief
- Squad Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
- Match Thorgan Boyata rescues a point for Mouscron
- Player ratings Eden Tielemans could not find anything