The SC Bastia Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
78 days out for Joachim Eickmayer after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SC Bastia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Gustave Akueson puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at SC Bastia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
SC Bastia close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 30 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Isaak Touré turns down SC Bastia
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FC Lorient keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mehdi Merghem in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SC Bastia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
SC Bastia counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at SC Bastia now.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
SC Bastia rebuffed over Renaud Ripart
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ESTAC Troyes have kept their man, and SC Bastia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and SC Bastia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at SC Bastia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issiaka Karamoko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Market Ignacio Zabal brings the grey hairs SC Bastia lacked
- Market Talks stall between SC Bastia and Maël de Gevigney
- Market SC Bastia borrow Nathaniel Adjei