Luca Pausé

Goalkeeper - Chamois Niortais
5 May 2028
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80 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Feb 2028

The wait goes on for Chamois Niortais

18 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match5 Feb 2028

A hiding for Chamois Niortais

Beaten 0‑3 by Stade Brestois, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market7 Feb 2028

Jordan Sebban 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 Chamois Niortais can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

Luca Pausé says Chamois Niortais 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.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Chamois Niortais close the window on a squad of their own making

7 in and 9 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets7 Feb 2028

Cheikh Koïté is a medical away from Chamois Niortais

The deal with Bourg-Peronnas 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Chamois Niortais

Hans Hateboer 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

A row about effort at Chamois Niortais

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iké Ugbo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout7 Feb 2028

Yann Simon gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
42 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 May 2027

The knee: Geovane out for 52 days

52 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chamois Niortais lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout17 May 2027

Jean-Pascal Fontaine says Chamois Niortais 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.

Squad17 May 2027

Emmanuel Vincent 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 Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 May 2027

Antoine Hainaut 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.

Squad17 May 2027

Ignacio Juárez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Chamois Niortais can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout17 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Luca Pausé

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

6 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Only the photograph left for Patrick Petit

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Patrick Petit will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chamois Niortais the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Chamois Niortais close the window on a squad of their own making

17 in and 8 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A move Luca Pausé would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Luca Pausé is living that version at Chamois Niortais, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

No thanks: Ryan Rodin rejects the move

Chamois Niortais had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AJ Auxerre, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Robert Moreau 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 Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Jannik Vestergaard

Chamois Niortais asked and Tottenham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Vidal 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Luca Pausé signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luca Pausé commits to Chamois Niortais for another 4 years.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Reda Rabeï gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief