Alphadjo Cissé

Central Midfielder - FC Metz
7 Sep 2026
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Marked for Alphadjo Cissé

5 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Roșca

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Jonathan Fischer

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market31 Aug 2026

Jessy Deminguet puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Metz, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Alphadjo Cissé 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for FC Metz against Angers SCO

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

The dugout31 Aug 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Hervé Richard to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

The form table has caught Florian Miguel

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Habib Diallo 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Jonathan Fischer called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at FC Metz that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Ousmane Ba says no to AC Ajaccio

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ousmane Ba had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market17 Aug 2026

FC Metz turn down CR Belouizdad for Joseph Mangondo

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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

1 academy graduates step up at FC Metz

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

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 Boubacar Traoré was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

FC Metz rebuffed over Jota Silva

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

Market17 Aug 2026

FC Metz promote Théodore Lacroix from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Théodore Lacroix has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Edson Lima out for 25 days

The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Edson Lima, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Alphadjo Cissé 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.

In brief