Dermane Karim

Defensive Midfielder - FC Lorient
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 2 Transfers Relations Events 30 Awards Matches History

Marked for Dermane Karim

10 Edition

The FC Lorient Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Montassar Talbi 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 FC Lorient this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match3 Oct 2026

3 matches without a goal for FC Lorient

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad5 Oct 2026

FC Lorient count the cost of losing Benjamin Leroy

39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ibrahim Cissé 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Noah Cadiou 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 ratings5 Oct 2026

Sambou Soumano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The FC Lorient Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market14 Sep 2026

FC Lorient turn down Le Havre AC for Igor Silva

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

Match12 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for FC Lorient against RC Strasbourg

0‑1 to RC Strasbourg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Dermane Karim 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 FC Lorient this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Théo Le Bris

“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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at FC Lorient training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noah Cadiou 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ibrahim Cissé dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market14 Sep 2026

Arsène Kouassi linked with a move away

The name of Arsène Kouassi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FC Lorient say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Montassar Talbi spends the afternoon fouling

Fouls conceded: 12. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Jean-Victor Makengo

Successful dribbles: 7. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief