Ramon

Left Back - Free Agent
3 Oct 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ramon

129 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 dugout

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 ratings

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 dugout

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
Back issues
101 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

$4.3M settles it between the clubs for Joan Tincres

Le Havre AC have accepted the money. What Paris FC do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Joe Adams asks to leave Paris FC

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Paris FC

Ilan Kebbal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Lassine Sinayoko raises the bar for Paris FC

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Paris FC heard it as anything else.

Squad

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.

Squad

Late improvement for Vincent Marchetti

At 31 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Boardroom

7 new boys at the Paris FC academy

Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Daniel Arnaud

“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.

The dugout

Luca Koleosho 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.

In brief

99 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Kévin Zohi asks to leave Paris FC

“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.

The dugout

Kévin Zohi says Paris FC went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Paris FC

Ilan Kebbal 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

Words at Paris FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moses Simon 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.

Transfer targets

Paris FC rebuffed over Anthony Bermont

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RC Lens have kept their man, and Paris FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Jean-Philippe Krasso out for 45 days

The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Jean-Philippe Krasso, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

No hiding place for Hugo Lamy

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hugo Lamy, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Nhoa Sangui has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Paris FC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Jonathan Ikoné talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Paris FC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

98 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Paris FC refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 66 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Ramon arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ramon has, at Paris FC, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Maxime Lopez wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Paris FC hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Transfer targets

Le Havre AC tell Paris FC: Stephan Zagadou is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words exchanged at Paris FC

Ilan Kebbal and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

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.

Squad

Ramon signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ramon and Paris FC agree another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Bob Omoregbe

“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.

Market

The Maxime Lopez story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Maxime Lopez signs something — a contract at Paris FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief