Erawan Garnier

Right Back - Le Havre AC
5 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Erawan Garnier

24 Edition

The Le Havre AC Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Kabangu Alex Teixeira agrees terms with Sochaux

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Le Havre AC people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Lionel Mpasi

There were 7 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.

Market

FC Nantes come back empty-handed

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

The dugout

Yanis Beau-Djellel says Le Havre AC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Ayumu Seko 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 Le Havre AC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Elysée Logbo keeps scoring at Bourg-Peronnas

21 appearances away from home and 16 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Market

Eyes on Alexis Vossah again

The phone has started ringing about Alexis Vossah again, and this time the name on the line is USM Khenchela. Le Havre AC are listening politely and promising nothing.

Boardroom

Le Havre AC agree a free transfer for Erawan Garnier

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets

Le Havre AC rebuffed over Agustín Fontana

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

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Patrick Leroux gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Patrick Leroux has just signed for RC Lens, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

No deal for Santiago Hidalgo at that price

RC Lens offered $6.2M; Toulouse FC said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

RC Lens make their move for Rafik Messali

$4.2M on the table at Toulouse FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Goduine Koyalipou’s exile

20 goals in 24 games at KV Kortrijk — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at RC Lens updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

RC Lens bring in Patrick Leroux from Chamois Niortais for the long haul

A squad is not eleven players and a wish. Patrick Leroux arrives from Chamois Niortais to make the number up properly, and the value of that will be argued about in March rather than today.

Market

FC Metz come back empty-handed

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

Boardroom

RC Lens go back to the board over Santiago Hidalgo

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $6.9M — a club that wants Santiago Hidalgo enough to be asked twice.

Boardroom

Erawan Garnier has agreed to leave RC Lens for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at RC Lens

Robin Risser 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.

In brief