Mischa Beeli

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Marked for Mischa Beeli

527 Edition

The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette

1 Sep 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Sep 2036

Terms done: Noah Vincent is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rodez AF waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Saint-Etienne is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market1 Sep 2036

Ladji Camara asks to leave AS Saint-Etienne

“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 dugout1 Sep 2036

Stephan Zagadou says AS Saint-Etienne 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.

Squad1 Sep 2036

A career in one shirt: Augustine Boakye

11 seasons and 423 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Market1 Sep 2036

Mischa Beeli is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Saint-Etienne is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom1 Sep 2036

Deadline passes with 34 signed and 25 gone

That is the business done at AS Saint-Etienne until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad1 Sep 2036

Mamadou Coulibaly 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 AS Saint-Etienne this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets1 Sep 2036

Door shut on Cesare Casadei

AS Saint-Etienne asked and Juventus said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad1 Sep 2036

Words at AS Saint-Etienne training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rayan Abo El Nay 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

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523 Edition

The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette

4 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Aug 2036

The knee: Jonas Wolf out for 48 days

48 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Saint-Etienne lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market4 Aug 2036

Ladji Camara 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 AS Saint-Etienne, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market4 Aug 2036

Only the photograph left for Mischa Beeli

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mischa Beeli will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Saint-Etienne the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market4 Aug 2036

AS Saint-Etienne turn down FC Annecy for Gaël Delplanque

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad4 Aug 2036

Mamadou Coulibaly 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.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2036

Juventus tell AS Saint-Etienne: Cesare Casadei 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.

Market4 Aug 2036

AS Saint-Etienne promote Émile Carpentier from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Émile Carpentier has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad4 Aug 2036

A falling-out at AS Saint-Etienne

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

Squad4 Aug 2036

Rémi Leroy signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rémi Leroy commits to AS Saint-Etienne for another 4 years.

In brief

520 Edition

The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette

14 Jul 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Jul 2036

The knee: Jonas Wolf out for 69 days

69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Saint-Etienne lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market14 Jul 2036

Noah Vincent agrees terms with Quevilly-Rouen

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AS Saint-Etienne people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market14 Jul 2036

Jules Ouaknine asks to leave AS Saint-Etienne

“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.

Squad14 Jul 2036

Words at AS Saint-Etienne training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Coulibaly 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 targets14 Jul 2036

Olympique Lyonnais tell AS Saint-Etienne: Sam Amo-Ameyaw 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.

Squad14 Jul 2036

Words exchanged at AS Saint-Etienne

Alexis Trouillet 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.

Squad14 Jul 2036

Edwin Martinez wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AS Saint-Etienne know it.

Loan watch14 Jul 2036

Jean-Baptiste Perrin counts the days

“I watch every AS Saint-Etienne game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Valenciennes runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout14 Jul 2036

Enrique Ríos has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AS Saint-Etienne 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.

In brief

519 Edition

The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette

7 Jul 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Jul 2036

The knee: Jonas Wolf out for 76 days

76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Saint-Etienne lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market7 Jul 2036

Jonas Wolf agrees terms with LB Chateauroux

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AS Saint-Etienne people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market7 Jul 2036

Noah Vincent 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 AS Saint-Etienne, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Jul 2036

Mischa Beeli is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Saint-Etienne is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market7 Jul 2036

AS Saint-Etienne say no — this time

The offer from FC Annecy for Gaël Delplanque was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom7 Jul 2036

AS Saint-Etienne to lose Mischa Beeli for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mischa Beeli has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad7 Jul 2036

Mamadou Coulibaly 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.

Transfer targets7 Jul 2036

Inter tell AS Saint-Etienne: Reda Belahyane 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.

Squad7 Jul 2036

A falling-out at AS Saint-Etienne

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

In brief

435 Edition

The FC Augsburg Herald

27 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad27 Nov 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tom Strannegård

105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Augsburg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings27 Nov 2034

Age has not caught Anzor Mekvabishvili yet — 8.01

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match25 Nov 2034

The wait goes on for FC Augsburg

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market27 Nov 2034

Javier Hernandez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Augsburg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom27 Nov 2034

Javier Hernandez signs for Borussia Mönchengladbach while still at FC Augsburg

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Javier Hernandez has agreed terms with Borussia Mönchengladbach for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Tempers go at FC Augsburg

Ishé Samuels-Smith 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.

The dugout27 Nov 2034

Iztok Drašler Raišp 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.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Jon Balda 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.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Mischa Beeli makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

In brief