Marked for Zinho Meunier
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Timothy Boyata
64 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Squad1 Feb 2027
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Mouscron, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Lois Hazard 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.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Paul Argney
At 20 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
Timothy Boyata damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Mouscron say no — this time
The offer from KV Oostende for Lois Hazard 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Mouscron's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Konstantinos Karetsas, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68
A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Lois Hazard 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Dedryck Kompany has left for Lokeren in a $420.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Mouscron
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Afonso Patrão 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.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
Timothy Boyata damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 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 ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match16 Jan 2027
5 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Lois Hazard 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Zinho Meunier 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Sint-Truiden left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mousa Mignolet, and the manager let it.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
The stands have heard the Adnan Meunier talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Mouscron would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Timothy Boyata
87 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Mouscron's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lois Hazard 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Harvey Griffiths would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Harvey Griffiths is living that version at Mouscron, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zinho Meunier 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Mouscron, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
Market11 Jan 2027
Lapo Deli is 20, and Mouscron have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lois Hazard 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Timothy Meunier has improved at 26, 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
It needed Zinho Meunier to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Club Brugge, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jason Courtois is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
2‑1 against Slavia Sofia, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Youri Kompany was at the centre of the description.
Match12 Dec 2026
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Youri Kompany decided nobody was going anywhere. Slavia Sofia had no time left to answer.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Zinho Meunier takes the afternoon — 8.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Zinho Meunier provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Youri Kompany, 33, rolls back the years — 7.90
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Lois Hazard 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 terraces14 Dec 2026
At 19 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Standard Liege made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Mouscron
11 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Dries Carrasco 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin Onana and Mouscron agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Zinho Meunier 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Mouscron
10 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Mouscron come up short in Europe
0‑1 away to the standard of Genoa. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mouscron may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Zinho 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Adnan Meunier'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.
Match28 Nov 2026
It needed Zinho Meunier to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lokeren, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 52 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 52 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Match21 Nov 2026
OH Leuven left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Charleroi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Mouscron and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Zinho Meunier 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.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 61 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 61 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Afonso Patrão at 19 — 7.96
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Afonso Patrão did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mouscron may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zinho Meunier 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa Mignolet
69 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Mouscron do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Mouscron came through the finding-out well against Zaglebie.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Robbe Quirynen was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jarno Libert, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mousa Mignolet damages knee ligaments — 86 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 86 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
Mouscron do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Mouscron came through the finding-out well against Zaglebie.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jason Courtois: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mouscron have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Zinho Meunier 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑3 to KV Oostende, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Dedryck Lukaku 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 terraces26 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Charleroi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Mouscron and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa Mignolet
108 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑0 against Slavia Sofia, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Robbe Quirynen was at the centre of the description.
Match3 Oct 2026
Mouscron win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 96th minute. Slavia Sofia will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Paul Argney
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dedryck Meunier: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mouscron have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.37 for the rest of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jason Courtois is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Paul Argney 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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa Mignolet
122 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A European lesson for Mouscron
0‑2 against Genoa. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lois Hazard 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Charles Openda
“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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Mouscron, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa Mignolet
129 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Simon Mertens at 19 — 7.70
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Simon Mertens did not need any: 7.70, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lois Hazard 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dedryck Lukaku 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Simon Mertens to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Club Brugge, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa Mignolet
138 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lois Hazard 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
KV Mechelen made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Lois Hazard was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mousa Hazard and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Sep 2026
Mouscron shop where it costs nothing
Robbe Quirynen signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mousa Mignolet
145 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.
Match26 Aug 2026
Mouscron bow out of the cup
Club Brugge go through and Mouscron go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lois Hazard 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adnan Meunier, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Standard Liege, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hans Doku commits to Mouscron for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hans Doku 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Zinho Meunier’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mouscron.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dedryck Meunier
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Hans Doku scores twice — 8.72
Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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
Dedryck 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Mouscron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hans Doku 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Zulte Waregem, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.