Hervé Boua Dié

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Valenciennes
20 Aug 2027
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Marked for Hervé Boua Dié

55 Edition

The Valenciennes Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Théo Le Bris

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match14 Aug 2027

No end in sight to Valenciennes's wait for a win

10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Valenciennes has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Quentin Daubin

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

Match14 Aug 2027

A 2-goal lead gone for Valenciennes

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Red Star kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Valenciennes will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Fee done, terms next for Théo Guivarch

Valenciennes and Clermont Foot have settled on $720.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Vintage Gaëtan Courtet — 8.28

At 38 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.28, and nobody on the pitch better.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Mamadou Coulibaly is a medical away from Valenciennes

The deal with Monaco is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Hervé Boua Dié 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Théo Le Bris 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 Valenciennes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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53 Edition

The Valenciennes Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings2 Aug 2027

Théo Le Bris was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 55. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The terraces2 Aug 2027

The mood at Valenciennes has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad2 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Quentin Daubin

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

Match31 Jul 2027

8 matches without a win for Valenciennes

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Valenciennes are no longer polite ones.

Market2 Aug 2027

Théo Le Bris wants more than Valenciennes are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Valenciennes

Théo Le Bris 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Omar El Manssouri 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 targets2 Aug 2027

Valenciennes rebuffed over Jeremy Agbonifo

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

Squad2 Aug 2027

Hervé Boua Dié signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hervé Boua Dié commits to Valenciennes for another 3 years.

In brief