Thorgan Doku

Right Forward - Free Agent
3 Feb 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Thorgan Doku

473 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

20 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Thomas Nainggolan out for 78 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mouscron will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Hans Batshuayi scores twice — 9.13

Two goals and a mark of 9.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Thorgan Nainggolan, 33, rolls back the years — 8.46

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.46 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Michy Fellaini

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

David Hubert 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

Thorgan Doku is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Squad

Zinho De Ketelaere 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.

Match

Hans Batshuayi sends Mouscron past Lokeren

It finished 3‑1, and it was Hans Batshuayi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mouscron.

Match

Hans Batshuayi at the heart of a fast Mouscron start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Hans Batshuayi in the middle of it, and Lokeren unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

In brief

Back issues
469 Edition

The Mouscron Gazette

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Thomas Nainggolan out for 106 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mouscron will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Adnan Carrasco 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.

Market

Westerlo 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Charles Mignolet

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Charles Mignolet will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mouscron the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Kevin 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Mouscron

David Hubert 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