The Paris FC Courier
Squad15 Jan 2029
Daniel Arnaud damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market15 Jan 2029
Ramon 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 Paris FC can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Ilan Kebbal 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 Paris FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A row about effort at Paris FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moses Simon was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Kevin Trapp reaches 50 shut-outs
50 games in 553 appearances where nobody scored at all. A keeper's career is counted in nothing happening, and none of this happened by accident.
Transfer targets15 Jan 2029
A loan move for Deivid Washington is in the works
Paris FC have made the call to RC Strasbourg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
A promise honoured for Pierre Lees-Melou
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Paris FC told Pierre Lees-Melou something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Johannes Eggestein runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Somebody else is better right now than Hamari Traoré
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Nhoa Sangui has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Maxime Lopez talk will not go away