Axel Onana

Left Forward - Mouscron
23 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Axel Onana

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The Mouscron Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

12 matches without a win for Mouscron

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.

Market

Mateo Cardona puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mouscron, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Axel Onana 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.

Match

5 matches without a goal for Mouscron

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Transfer targets

Sebastiaan Timmers is a medical away from Mouscron

The deal with Racing Genk is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Nacer Onana 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.

Player ratings

Mousa Onana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at Mouscron

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

Transfer targets

Racing Genk tell Mouscron: August De Wannemacker is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

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The Mouscron Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Mouscron

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Mateo Cardona puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mouscron, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Mousa Onana beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A row about effort at Mouscron

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Mouscron

Radja Hazard 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mousa Onana

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mousa Onana, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Mouscron against KV Mechelen

0‑1 to KV Mechelen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Mateo Cardona wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Mouscron can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Jason Tielemans 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.

In brief