Demba Samassa

Left Midfielder - Valenciennes
13 Aug 2028
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The Valenciennes Post

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Apr 2028

Jean Louchet 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.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Words at Valenciennes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Philippe Krasso 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 dugout3 Apr 2028

Mabrouk Rouaï is still paying for one afternoon at Valenciennes

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market3 Apr 2028

No place for Yakine Said M'Madi in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Yakine Said M'Madi has his answer from Valenciennes; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market3 Apr 2028

The Charles Abi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Valenciennes know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout3 Apr 2028

The manager makes Matys Donavin a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Valenciennes. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

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The Valenciennes Post

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Jan 2028

Sochaux come back empty-handed

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

Squad31 Jan 2028

Chahreddine Boukholda gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Chahreddine Boukholda has just signed for Valenciennes, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets31 Jan 2028

Abdelsamad Hachem is a medical away from Valenciennes

The deal with Red Star 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.

Market31 Jan 2028

Maxime Pélican hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Valenciennes can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Jan 2028

Baptiste Nouchet is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Valenciennes is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets31 Jan 2028

Seifeddine Jaziri will not be coming to Valenciennes

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Zamalek is saying, and nobody at Valenciennes is enjoying the guessing.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Words exchanged at Valenciennes

Dro 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.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Jean-Philippe Krasso 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.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Samir Belloumou

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

In brief