Wout Faes

Central Defender - Monaco
1 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Wout Faes

16 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Denis Zakaria 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 Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Folarin Balogun falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Simon Adingra

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Folarin Balogun stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Monaco support went home talking about one name.

Match

Monaco share the spoils with Paris FC

A 1‑1 draw with Paris FC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Wout Faes 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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vanderson breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Romelu Fellaini gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Romelu Fellaini has just signed for Monaco, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Romelu Fellaini arrives at Monaco as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Romelu Fellaini is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

Market

Clermont Foot watching Ansu Fati

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Monaco have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ansu Fati

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Monaco

Michał Skóraś was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Wout Faes 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.

Market

Stade Brestois are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Monaco will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

No goals between Monaco and RC Strasbourg

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. RC Strasbourg will be the happier side with the point.

In brief