Artista

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47 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Jun 2027

Simon Vertonghen breaks a bone — 59 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market21 Jun 2027

Artista 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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

The step up is real for Amine Boukamir

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Market21 Jun 2027

Youri Januzaj has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Mouscron can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad21 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Mouscron

Yannick Batshuayi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Yannick Batshuayi has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

When it matters, Thibault Vlietinck plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market21 Jun 2027

Kevin Alderweireld linked with a move away

The name of Kevin Alderweireld keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Kelvin Neijenhuis 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

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The Mouscron Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Nov 2026

7 saves: Yannick Batshuayi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Mouscron

Romelu Kompany 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 dugout16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Kelvin Neijenhuis

“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.

Match14 Nov 2026

Zulte Waregem take the points off Mouscron

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Mouscron

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jarno Libert was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad16 Nov 2026

12 new faces, and Mouscron are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Loan watch16 Nov 2026

Thorgan Chadli counts the days

“I watch every Mouscron game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lokeren runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Thorgan Vertonghen answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Robbe Quirynen

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

7 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Sep 2026

Nowhere to hide for Mouscron

1‑4 against Club Brugge, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Didier Charpentier 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.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Julien Bègue 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.

Boardroom14 Sep 2026

Doors closed at Mouscron

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Thorgan Vertonghen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Mouscron

Artista and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Lucas Droyaux stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Droyaux and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Romelu Kompany 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 dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Amine Boukamir's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief