Enzo Mongo

Central Defender - FC Nantes
28 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Enzo Mongo

15 Edition

The FC Nantes Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Herba Guirassy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Nantes

Johann Lepenant 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.

Market

FC Nantes may not be able to give Ezequiel Almirón what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ezequiel Almirón wants continental football; whether FC Nantes can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

No hiding place for Anthony Martial

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Matthis Abline

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 ratings

A masterclass from Matthis Abline

Marked 8.30 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The FC Nantes Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Yoann Court

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

Market

AJ Auxerre come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Nantes did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

4 matches without a win for FC Nantes

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FC Nantes are no longer polite ones.

Match

4 matches without a goal for FC Nantes

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

FC Nantes may not be able to give Ezequiel Almirón what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ezequiel Almirón wants continental football; whether FC Nantes can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings

Herba Guirassy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Olympique de Marseille take the points off FC Nantes

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Fabien Centonze 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.

Squad

7 new faces, and FC Nantes are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief