Dries Doku

Defensive Midfielder - Mouscron
30 Sep 2026
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Marked for Dries Doku

8 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Sep 2026

Nacer De Bruyne breaks a bone — 41 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Dries Doku at 21 — 7.88

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dries Doku did not need any: 7.88, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Mouscron

Dries Doku 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Mouscron see off Waasland-Beveren

Three points for Mouscron, 1‑0 the final word against Waasland-Beveren in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Nacer Openda at his very best

Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Mouscron.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Fofana 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Jason Alderweireld wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Caio Machado runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market21 Sep 2026

Agustín Segundo joins Mouscron on a free

No fee and no drama: Agustín Segundo has signed at Mouscron, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Simon Courtois runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market17 Aug 2026

Mouscron say no — this time

The offer from PSV for Dries Doku 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Anderlecht join the queue for Leander Vanaken

Add another name to the list: Anderlecht have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Leander Vanaken. The answer from Mouscron has not changed — yet.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Caio Machado in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mouscron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yannick Mertens 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Mouscron come up short against Lokeren

Lokeren left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match15 Aug 2026

No time for Lokeren to settle

The goal that put Lokeren ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Mouscron equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Yannick Onana 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Hans Castagne signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hans Castagne commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.

In brief

2 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

A brace, and Caio Machado takes the afternoon — 7.90

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Caio Machado provided it, and the 7.90 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market10 Aug 2026

ADO Den Haag come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Mouscron did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Dries Doku signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dries Doku commits to Mouscron for another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Mouscron

Simon Courtois 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Mouscron sell Mousa Meunier for $900.0K

Mousa Meunier has left for KV Kortrijk in a $900.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match8 Aug 2026

Mouscron find a way past OH Leuven

OH Leuven made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Simon Courtois

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Yannick Mertens

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jason Alderweireld 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nacer Openda runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 56. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Charles Lukaku could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.31

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.31, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Match1 Aug 2026

A 3-goal lead gone for Mouscron

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Zulte Waregem kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Mouscron will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mouscron say no — this time

The offer from Monaco for Charles Lukaku 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Leander Meunier wants more than Mouscron are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Mouscron

Dries Doku 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Zulte Waregem take the points off Mouscron

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yannick Mertens falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

Mouscron supporters have found a favourite in Michy Hazard

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Michy Hazard has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief