Zinho Meunier

Central Midfielder - Mouscron
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Zinho Meunier

6 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

Eden Nainggolan 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Dedryck Lukaku 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.

Match

Mouscron find a way past KV Mechelen

KV Mechelen made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Zinho Meunier runs at them all day

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 ratings

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.

Squad

Mousa Hazard stays put

“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.

Market

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.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Market

Laurent Hazard 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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Zinho Meunier runs at them all day

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Adnan Meunier

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Mouscron against Standard Liege

0‑2 to Standard Liege, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Zinho Meunier runs at them all day

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.

Squad

Hans Doku signs a new deal

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

Squad

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.

Match

Zinho Meunier sends Mouscron past OH Leuven

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Hans Doku in the eights

A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

1 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

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.

Squad

Dedryck Meunier keeps Mouscron in it on his own

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.

Market

Mouscron turn down Hull City for Timothy Lukaku

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Hans Doku 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Nobody could get near Zinho Meunier

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Mouscron get the job done against Zulte Waregem

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.

Squad

Dries Vertonghen is still paying for one afternoon at Mouscron

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.

In brief