Elfayed Maanrifa

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Marked for Elfayed Maanrifa

32 Edition

The AS Nancy Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Mar 2027

Walid Bouabdeli breaks a bone — 55 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Enzo Basilio stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad8 Mar 2027

The step up is real for Elfayed Maanrifa

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Nicolas Saint-Ruf signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolas Saint-Ruf commits to AS Nancy for another 2 years.

Match6 Mar 2027

A bad afternoon for AS Nancy against Le Mans FC

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

The dugout8 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Cazim Suljic

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

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Eddy Sylvestre ran the middle of the pitch — 6.98

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.98, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mathieu Da Silva left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

No place for Nicolas Saint-Ruf on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at AS Nancy pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The AS Nancy Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Dec 2026

Real improvement from Elfayed Maanrifa at AS Nancy

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elfayed Maanrifa is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Words at AS Nancy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jérémy Gélin 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.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Justin Bourgault

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match19 Dec 2026

AS Nancy see off Pau FC

Three points for AS Nancy, 1‑0 the final word against Pau FC in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad21 Dec 2026

A falling-out at AS Nancy

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

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Pape Meïssa Bâ was the difference for AS Nancy

Marked 7.79. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Loan watch21 Dec 2026

Nehemiah Fernandez counts the days

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

The dugout21 Dec 2026

A satisfied Mathieu Da Silva

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Mathieu Da Silva could afford to be generous.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Elydjah Mendy 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The AS Nancy Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

AS Nancy lose Zakaria Fdaouch

36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Noam Obougou Jacquet at AS Nancy

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noam Obougou Jacquet is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jérémy Gélin signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jérémy Gélin and AS Nancy agree another 4 years.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Zakaria Fdaouch

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at AS Nancy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cazim Suljic 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

AS Nancy keep their word to Salis Abdul Samed

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Walid Bouabdeli knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS Nancy, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

A reunion for Pape Meïssa Bâ

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Red Star in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market12 Oct 2026

No place for Elfayed Maanrifa in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Elfayed Maanrifa has his answer from AS Nancy; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

10 Edition

The AS Nancy Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Oct 2026

AS Nancy make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AS Nancy have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Elfayed Maanrifa is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at AS Nancy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jérémy Gélin 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

AS Nancy see off SC Bastia

Three points for AS Nancy, 1‑0 the final word against SC Bastia in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Jérémy Gélin was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Rayan Bamba reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at AS Nancy

Dan Sinaté 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Victor Orakpo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 88% of everything AS Nancy earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief