Ousmane Ba

Goalkeeper - FC Metz
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Ousmane Ba

4 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad24 Aug 2026

Jonathan Fischer keeps FC Metz in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match22 Aug 2026

FC Metz win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Toulouse FC will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market24 Aug 2026

Antonin Melis 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 FC Metz can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Aug 2026

FC Metz say no — this time

The offer from Angers SCO for Ousmane Ba 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at FC Metz

Jessy Deminguet 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at FC Metz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giorgi Abuashvili 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 targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Yohann Magnin

FC Metz asked and CSKA 1948 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Michel Mboula

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Giorgi Kvilitaia

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

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

FC Metz turn down FC Nantes for Pape Sy

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at FC Metz

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at FC Metz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giorgi Abuashvili was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

FC Metz rebuffed over Wilson Isidor

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

Market17 Aug 2026

Eyes on Ousmane Ba again

The phone has started ringing about Ousmane Ba again, and this time the name on the line is Angers SCO. FC Metz are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

A loan move for Bruma is in the works

FC Metz have made the call to Benfica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kévin Bérigaud is a square peg at FC Metz

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

FC Metz say no to the training-ground money

The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.

Market17 Aug 2026

Nidal Čelik arrives on loan

FC Metz have taken Nidal Čelik on loan from RC Lens — cover where cover was needed.

In brief