The SC Bastia Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
SC Bastia bid $10.2M for Aurélien Scheidler
The offer went to Charleroi this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Diego Coppola
SC Bastia asked and Paris FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
SC Bastia go back to the board over Mathys De Carvalho
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $446.5K — a club that wants Mathys De Carvalho enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $380.0K for Mathys De Carvalho
SC Bastia have gone to Olympique Lyonnais with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at SC Bastia
Mehdi Merghem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 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 SC Bastia, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match15 Aug 2026
EA Guingamp take the points off SC Bastia
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout17 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Julien Perrin to a room that had heard them before.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luca Pausé signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luca Pausé commits to SC Bastia for another 4 years.
In brief
- Market A long bet from SC Bastia on Luca Pausé
- Squad A row about effort at SC Bastia
- The dugout No hiding place for Tom Ducrocq