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Steady
Squad23 Sep 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“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.
Match21 Sep 2030
It finished 3-3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Squad16 Sep 2030
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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Rahul Sharma 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.
Match14 Sep 2030
0-1 to Club Brugge , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Sep 2030
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Sep 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christian Carrasco and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market16 Sep 2030
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Sep 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad9 Sep 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dries Chadli and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match7 Sep 2030
KV Mechelen made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad9 Sep 2030
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad9 Sep 2030
54 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market9 Sep 2030
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Sep 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match28 Aug 2030
Mouscron bow out of the cupRacing Genk go through and Mouscron go home, 2-2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match31 Aug 2030
Beaten 3-4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dries Chadli commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“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.
Squad2 Sep 2030
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match24 Aug 2030
Three points for Mouscron , 3-2 the final word against Racing Genk in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Aug 2030
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zinho Lukaku knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad26 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Jason Witsel has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Jason Witsel keeps the shirt for now, at Mouscron 's convenience rather than his own.
Market26 Aug 2030
The Eden Chadli talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market26 Aug 2030
No fee and no drama: Rahul Sharma has signed at Mouscron , and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Junior Robinson asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market26 Aug 2030
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Timothy Boyata moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad19 Aug 2030
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 11 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.
Match17 Aug 2030
Chastening afternoon for Mouscron
A 2-6 beating by Lokeren was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad19 Aug 2030
The medical room confirms 62 days on the sidelines for Christian Vertonghen , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Thomas Chadli
“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.
Squad19 Aug 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Reece Welch commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
Nobody left the Mouscron dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Aug 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match10 Aug 2030
Three points for Mouscron , 3-1 the final word against OH Leuven in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Charles Chadli
“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.
Squad12 Aug 2030
The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Remi Matthews , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Timothy Boyata commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Market12 Aug 2030
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market12 Aug 2030
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Thomas Alderweireld leaves Mouscron the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market12 Aug 2030
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dries De Ketelaere leaves Mouscron the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market12 Aug 2030
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Mouscron money.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Aug 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match3 Aug 2030
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.
Market5 Aug 2030
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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lukas Talen and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match3 Aug 2030
A 4-4 draw with Zulte Waregem leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad5 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Lukas Talen
“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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
The captaincy has been taken off Charles Chadli . Mouscron will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market5 Aug 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market5 Aug 2030
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Toby Hazard moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad29 Jul 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match27 Jul 2030
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.
Market29 Jul 2030
The shirt still fits. Adnan Mertens is back at Mouscron , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market29 Jul 2030
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market29 Jul 2030
The shirt still fits. Laurent Tielemans is back at Mouscron , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market29 Jul 2030
The shirt still fits. Thomas Fellaini is back at Mouscron , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Jul 2030
93 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Jul 2030
“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.
Market22 Jul 2030
Zulte Waregem are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Mouscron will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Jul 2030
The medical room confirms 79 days on the sidelines for Remi Matthews , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Jul 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Toby Hazard and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 Jul 2030
The manager makes an example of Andréa Librici
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Jul 2030
“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.
Market8 Jul 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Jul 2030
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market8 Jul 2030
Westerlo come back empty-handedThe 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.
Squad8 Jul 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Charles Chadli commits to Mouscron for another 2 years.
Boardroom8 Jul 2030
$422.7K a year onto the Mouscron books
A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Jul 2030
“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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Lukas Talen 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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
The captaincy has been taken off Viktor Damjanić . Mouscron will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Jun 2030
Timothy Boyata has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Jun 2030
125 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Jun 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roberto Malfitano commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Jun 2030
112 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad17 Jun 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristian Ammucciato commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Squad17 Jun 2030
The manager makes an example of Remi Matthews
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jun 2030
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Jun 2030
“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.
Market10 Jun 2030
Zulte Waregem are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Mouscron will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Jun 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gustavo Ferreira and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Jun 2030
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad3 Jun 2030
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market27 May 2030
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad27 May 2030
Andréa Librici asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Boardroom27 May 2030
The Mouscron production line keeps running
20 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad20 May 2030
“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.
Market20 May 2030
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad20 May 2030
Andréa Librici knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 May 2030
75 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad13 May 2030
The manager makes an example of Lukas Talen
“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.
Squad13 May 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Remi Matthews and Mouscron agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 May 2030
“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.
Market6 May 2030
The Eden Chadli talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market6 May 2030
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Youri Vertonghen moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market29 Apr 2030
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Ollie Gofford asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Boardroom29 Apr 2030
The Mouscron production line keeps running
20 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Apr 2030
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Apr 2030
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Christian Vertonghen , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad22 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Apr 2030
The medical room confirms 104 days on the sidelines for Charles Chadli , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Lukas Talen
“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.
Market15 Apr 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Apr 2030
“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.
Market8 Apr 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Apr 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jason Witsel commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Apr 2030
“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.
Market1 Apr 2030
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad1 Apr 2030
Andréa Librici asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Mar 2030
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad25 Mar 2030
The manager makes an example of Andréa Librici
“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.
Market25 Mar 2030
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Mar 2030
137 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market18 Mar 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Mar 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Mar 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Muhammad Dahaba commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
Squad11 Mar 2030
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Mar 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Mar 2030
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Lukas Talen , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Mar 2030
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Feb 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Timothy Nainggolan commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Squad25 Feb 2030
The manager makes an example of Muhammad Dahaba
“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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Feb 2030
20 goals and a season average of 7.80. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad18 Feb 2030
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Dries Chadli , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad18 Feb 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kaden Rodney commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Feb 2030
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 9 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.
Market11 Feb 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match9 Feb 2030
4-4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market11 Feb 2030
Jack Miller 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.
Market11 Feb 2030
Georginio Weghorst is 18, 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.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Jaden Brown 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match2 Feb 2030
Beaten 1-4 by Anderlecht , and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad4 Feb 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thomas Chadli and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Lukas Talen 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.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Dries Chadli is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.24 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Beaten 4 times, with 4 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Jan 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Jan 2030
19 goals and a season average of 7.79. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match26 Jan 2030
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Mouscron did not have in the autumn.
Match26 Jan 2030
Three points for Mouscron , 3-1 the final word against Charleroi in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 Jan 2030
The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Romelu Openda , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Jan 2030
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Jan 2030
Martin Remacle : 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
A season average of 7.59 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad21 Jan 2030
44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match19 Jan 2030
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Mouscron did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Jan 2030
“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.
Match19 Jan 2030
4-4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market14 Jan 2030
KAA Gent come back empty-handedThe 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.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Kaden Rodney : 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.
Market14 Jan 2030
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Jan 2030
A season average of 7.54 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match12 Jan 2030
Three points for Mouscron , 2-1 the final word against Westerlo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market14 Jan 2030
OH Leuven are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Mouscron will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad14 Jan 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roberto Malfitano commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
Squad14 Jan 2030
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zinho Lukaku knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The terraces14 Jan 2030
Supporters make their feelings known about Romelu Chadli
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Mouscron would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
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Upbeat
Match5 Jan 2030
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4-0 against Waasland-Beveren , and it could have been more.
Squad7 Jan 2030
18 goals and a season average of 7.77. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market7 Jan 2030
Ariel López has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Jan 2030
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
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.
Squad7 Jan 2030
The manager makes an example of Jason Witsel
“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.
Squad7 Jan 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Junior Robinson and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Jan 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market7 Jan 2030
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Martin Remacle may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
Mouscron keep producing them20 graduates from an academy now rated 11 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Dec 2029
6 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad31 Dec 2029
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zinho Lukaku knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match29 Dec 2029
A 1-1 draw with Club Brugge leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 Dec 2029
“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.
Squad31 Dec 2029
Ariel López asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market31 Dec 2029
The name of Zinho Lukaku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad24 Dec 2029
74 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match22 Dec 2029
A 2-1 win over KV Mechelen , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad24 Dec 2029
A season average of 7.48 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad24 Dec 2029
The manager makes an example of Martin Remacle
“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.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Ariel López knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 Dec 2029
The name of Thomas Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Dec 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.69 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Youri Vertonghen : 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.
Match15 Dec 2029
Standard Liege made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Zinho Lukaku 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.
Market17 Dec 2029
Eden Chadli linked with a move awayThe name of Eden Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad17 Dec 2029
Ariel López unhappy with how he is being usedAsked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Ariel López has let it be known that he does not like the way Mouscron are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Dec 2029
Ariel López has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 Dec 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jacob Beaumont-Clark commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
Match8 Dec 2029
0-1 to Racing Genk , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Dec 2029
A season average of 7.38 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad10 Dec 2029
Josh Benson 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Dec 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match1 Dec 2029
Lokeren will want this one forgotten quickly: 6-3, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Mouscron were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.68 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Josh Benson : 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.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Charles Chadli commits to Mouscron for another 2 years.
Market3 Dec 2029
Marcel Mehlem has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market3 Dec 2029
The name of Zinho Lukaku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Market3 Dec 2029
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Mouscron money.
Boardroom3 Dec 2029
Mouscron were not finished after allWritten off a fortnight ago, the squad has closed ranks and answered on the pitch. Something was said behind that door, and so far it is holding.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Nov 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.62 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad26 Nov 2029
104 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 Nov 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Nov 2029
“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.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.58 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match17 Nov 2029
Three points for Mouscron , 2-0 the final word against Zulte Waregem in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 Nov 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dante Cassanova commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Squad19 Nov 2029
“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.
The terraces19 Nov 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market12 Nov 2029
Ariel López hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Market12 Nov 2029
Ariel López has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match10 Nov 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Reece Welch : 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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
11 goals and a season average of 7.53. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match10 Nov 2029
KAA Gent left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Nov 2029
Max Howells : 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.
Match3 Nov 2029
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.
Market5 Nov 2029
Marcel Mehlem has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Max Howells Max Howells: that is not what I was promised
Squad5 Nov 2029
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match3 Nov 2029
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad5 Nov 2029
“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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
A season average of 7.27 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market5 Nov 2029
The name of Zinho Lukaku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Market5 Nov 2029
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Niels Verburgh moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad29 Oct 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 8 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.
Squad29 Oct 2029
10 goals and a season average of 7.48. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match27 Oct 2029
KV Oostende left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market22 Oct 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Oct 2029
9 goals and a season average of 7.44. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad22 Oct 2029
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market15 Oct 2029
Ariel López hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Market15 Oct 2029
Ariel López has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Oct 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.37 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match13 Oct 2029
4-4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad15 Oct 2029
“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.
Squad15 Oct 2029
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zinho Lukaku knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market8 Oct 2029
Marcel Mehlem has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match6 Oct 2029
A 4-3 win over Sint-Truiden , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 Oct 2029
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Zinho Lukaku knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad8 Oct 2029
“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.
Squad8 Oct 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market8 Oct 2029
The name of Zinho Lukaku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Oct 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
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.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Thibaud Sergeant : 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.
Match29 Sep 2029
A 1-0 win over Westerlo , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 Sep 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market24 Sep 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match22 Sep 2029
Waasland-Beveren left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Sep 2029
The medical room confirms 63 days on the sidelines for Bryan Eyenga Lokilo , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Thomas Chadli
“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.
Squad24 Sep 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.29 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Sep 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 9 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.
Market17 Sep 2029
Ariel López hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Market17 Sep 2029
Ariel López has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Zinho Lukaku
“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.
Match15 Sep 2029
3-3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Zinho Lukaku is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.23 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Martin Remacle knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market17 Sep 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market17 Sep 2029
Mouscron have made Junior Robinson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Sep 2029
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.
Market10 Sep 2029
Marcel Mehlem has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match8 Sep 2029
KV Mechelen made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 4-3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Reece Welch and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Sep 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market10 Sep 2029
The name of Zinho Lukaku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Market10 Sep 2029
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tom Wooster leaves Mouscron the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market10 Sep 2029
Mouscron have made Jop Tijink available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Sep 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 11 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.
Match29 Aug 2029
Mouscron bow out of the cupRacing Genk 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.
Market3 Sep 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market3 Sep 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mouscron have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match1 Sep 2029
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.
Market3 Sep 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Mouscron will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match1 Sep 2029
It finished 3-3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad3 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Mouscron have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Aug 2029
Youri Vertonghen : 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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
The medical room confirms 93 days on the sidelines for Bryan Eyenga Lokilo , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match25 Aug 2029
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market27 Aug 2029
OH Leuven are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Mouscron will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Ariel López 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
The name of Martin Remacle keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad20 Aug 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 9 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.
Match18 Aug 2029
0-3 to Lokeren , and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market20 Aug 2029
Ariel López hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Market20 Aug 2029
Niels Verburgh has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Aug 2029
“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.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Aug 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 7 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.
Market13 Aug 2029
OH Leuven come back empty-handedThe 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.
Market13 Aug 2029
The name of Charles Chadli has come up in conversations Mouscron were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market13 Aug 2029
Marcel Mehlem has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match11 Aug 2029
A 1-0 win over OH Leuven , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match4 Aug 2029
16 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 8 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.
Market6 Aug 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market6 Aug 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mouscron have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad6 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Eden Chadli
“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.
Match4 Aug 2029
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad6 Aug 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christian Carrasco commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Mouscron will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Market6 Aug 2029
The name of Thomas Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match28 Jul 2029
15 matches without a win for Mouscron
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Mouscron are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market30 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market30 Jul 2029
The shirt still fits. Thorgan Lukaku is back at Mouscron , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market30 Jul 2029
The shirt still fits. Dedryck Castagne is back at Mouscron , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market30 Jul 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match28 Jul 2029
KAA Gent left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“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.
In brief
Boardroom
The ground is getting bigger
Squad
Zinho Lukaku finally opens his account
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Zinho Lukaku
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Jul 2029
Mouscron sink to position 1521 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market23 Jul 2029
Niels Verburgh has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Jul 2029
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Ariel López knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market23 Jul 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Jul 2029
OH Leuven come back empty-handedThe 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.
Market16 Jul 2029
Marcel Mehlem has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Jul 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market9 Jul 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mouscron have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kaden Rodney and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mouscron
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market2 Jul 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Jul 2029
43 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match25 Jun 2029
Mouscron sink to position 1521 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market25 Jun 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market25 Jun 2029
Niels Verburgh has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jun 2029
44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market25 Jun 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jun 2029
Youri Vertonghen : 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.
Market18 Jun 2029
OH Leuven come back empty-handedThe 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Gustavo Ferreira , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jun 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market11 Jun 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gustavo Ferreira and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Zinho Lukaku Mouscron turn down Standard Liege for Zinho Lukaku
Market11 Jun 2029
Zulte Waregem are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Mouscron will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad11 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Remi Matthews
“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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Thomas Chadli joins up with his country. Mouscron lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jun 2029
Anderlecht come back empty-handedThe 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.
Market4 Jun 2029
“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.
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mouscron
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad4 Jun 2029
“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.
Market4 Jun 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Zinho Lukaku has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Zinho Lukaku keeps the shirt for now, at Mouscron 's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match28 May 2029
Mouscron are in real trouble nowPosition 15, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market28 May 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mouscron is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 May 2029
The manager makes an example of Zinho Lukaku
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 May 2029
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad21 May 2029
Tom Wooster asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad21 May 2029
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Thomas Chadli has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Squad14 May 2029
“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.
Loan watch14 May 2029
31 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market14 May 2029
The name of Martin Remacle keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom7 May 2029
Pressure builds in the Mouscron boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad7 May 2029
“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.
Boardroom7 May 2029
Mouscron pull $6.8M back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Match30 Apr 2029
Mouscron are in real trouble nowPosition 15, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Loan watch30 Apr 2029
“I did not go to Westerlo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Mouscron and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Reece Welch 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.
Market30 Apr 2029
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Kaden Rodney knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Apr 2029
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Corey Thomas , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Apr 2029
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Martin Remacle knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Apr 2029
Youri Vertonghen : 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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Cristian Ammucciato , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Martin Remacle asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Apr 2029
Zinho Lukaku 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.
Squad9 Apr 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ollie Gofford and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market9 Apr 2029
The name of Thomas Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match2 Apr 2029
Mouscron are in real trouble nowPosition 15, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Mouscron will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Mar 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jacob Beaumont-Clark and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad26 Mar 2029
52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Mar 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“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.
Loan watch19 Mar 2029
29 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Viktor Damjanić commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Market12 Mar 2029
The name of Thomas Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Andréa Librici knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Mar 2029
Mouscron are in real trouble nowPosition 15, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Romelu Chadli and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Martin Remacle asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
$315.9K a year onto the Mouscron books
A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Feb 2029
“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.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Martin Remacle knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Feb 2029
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Feb 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Tom Wooster : 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Zinho Lukaku 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.
Tom Wooster Tom Wooster: that is not what I was promised
Match17 Feb 2029
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Loan watch19 Feb 2029
25 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad19 Feb 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match10 Feb 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 8 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Remi Matthews : 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Martin Remacle
“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.
Match10 Feb 2029
A 2-2 draw with KV Oostende leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market12 Feb 2029
The name of Thomas Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match3 Feb 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 Feb 2029
Mouscron sink to position 1619 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market5 Feb 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mouscron have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match3 Feb 2029
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Martin Remacle will call it something else in private.
Squad5 Feb 2029
“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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
5 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market5 Feb 2029
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match27 Jan 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 Jan 2029
12 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match27 Jan 2029
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad29 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Ariel López
“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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ollie Gofford and Mouscron agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market29 Jan 2029
The Zinho Lukaku talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mouscron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Match20 Jan 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Market22 Jan 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market22 Jan 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mouscron can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Thomas Chadli
“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.
Match20 Jan 2029
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market22 Jan 2029
Ariel López told to find a new club“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ariel López has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Mouscron .
Squad22 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Corey Thomas commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
Loan watch22 Jan 2029
21 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market22 Jan 2029
The name of Martin Remacle keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match13 Jan 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 7 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.
Market15 Jan 2029
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.
Match13 Jan 2029
1-3 to Westerlo , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Raf Smekens and Mouscron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Jaden Brown
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match8 Jan 2029
Mouscron are in real trouble nowPosition 15, 19 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match6 Jan 2029
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Market8 Jan 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mouscron have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market8 Jan 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Jan 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match6 Jan 2029
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Jason Witsel 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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Muhammad Dahaba commits to Mouscron for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Match30 Dec 2028
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Romelu Chadli is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.47 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad1 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Zinho Lukaku
“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.
Market1 Jan 2029
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Youri Vertonghen has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Mouscron .
Squad1 Jan 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jaden Brown and Mouscron agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Match23 Dec 2028
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.
Squad25 Dec 2028
10 goals and a season average of 7.44. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match23 Dec 2028
1-3 to KV Mechelen , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad25 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Thomas Chadli
“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.
Market25 Dec 2028
The name of Romelu Chadli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch25 Dec 2028
17 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Crisis
Match16 Dec 2028
0-3 to Standard Liege , and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match16 Dec 2028
No end in sight to Mouscron 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mouscron has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom18 Dec 2028
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad18 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Dante Cassanova
“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.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Ariel López knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match9 Dec 2028
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 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zinho Lukaku commits to Mouscron for another 3 years.
Match9 Dec 2028
Racing Genk left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Ariel López 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Zinho Lukaku knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch11 Dec 2028
15 appearances at Groningen and the goals keep coming. Mouscron are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Squad4 Dec 2028
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 7 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Mees Kreekels has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match2 Dec 2028
It finished 3-3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Zinho Lukaku asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Nov 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad27 Nov 2028
10 goals and a season average of 7.46. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad27 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Thomas Chadli
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match18 Nov 2028
Zulte Waregem left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad20 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Martin Remacle
“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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mouscron , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad13 Nov 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad13 Nov 2028
9 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match11 Nov 2028
KAA Gent made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad13 Nov 2028
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad13 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Christian Hazard , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market13 Nov 2028
The name of Martin Remacle keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mouscron say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match6 Nov 2028
Mouscron are in real trouble nowPosition 14, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Thibaud Sergeant : 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.
Market6 Nov 2028
Mees Kreekels has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mouscron they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match4 Nov 2028
KV Kortrijk made Mouscron work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Romelu Chadli is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.38 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 54 days on the sidelines for Thorgan Hazard , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Crisis
Match28 Oct 2028
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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
A one-man rearguard from Zinho Lukaku
There were 7 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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.