Thomas Witsel

Central Midfielder - Mouscron
6 Sep 2026
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4 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Christian Castagne

79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mouscron lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market24 Aug 2026

Mouscron say no — this time

The offer from Anderlecht for Radja Carrasco 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Nicolò De Angelis asks to leave Mouscron

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Toby Meunier, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90

A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market24 Aug 2026

Eyes on Mousa Witsel again

The phone has started ringing about Mousa Witsel again, and this time the name on the line is TSG Hoffenheim. Mouscron are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Youri Meunier runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match22 Aug 2026

Mouscron come up short against Racing Genk

Racing Genk left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match22 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Mouscron and Racing Genk in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Mouscron

Eden Vertonghen 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.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Christian Castagne

86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mouscron lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match15 Aug 2026

Lokeren punish Mouscron for switching off

4 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Mousa Witsel will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Mouscron escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A brace, and Toby Meunier takes the afternoon — 9.74

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Toby Meunier provided it, and the 9.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Mousa Witsel scores twice — 9.40

Two goals and a mark of 9.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market17 Aug 2026

RC Lens 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Lois Januzaj, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60

A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Thomas Witsel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Eden Vertonghen 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

No hiding place for Radja Carrasco

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

In brief

2 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

Christian Castagne damages knee ligaments — 93 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 93 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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Toby Meunier at 21 — 7.88

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Heracles 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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Thomas Witsel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Michy Chadli stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michy Chadli and Mouscron agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Mouscron

Toby Meunier 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michy Chadli 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Vicenza join the queue for Axel Castagne

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

Market10 Aug 2026

No place for Nicolò De Angelis in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nicolò De Angelis has his answer from Mouscron; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief