The Valenciennes Post
Squad27 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hervé Renaud
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valenciennes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match25 Sep 2027
A hiding for Valenciennes
Beaten 1‑4 by Paris FC, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Djaoui Cissé 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Santiago Hidalgo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Ahmed Diomandé
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Valenciennes lose Andrei Ciobanu
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Boardroom Inquest at Valenciennes
- Market The Charles Abi story refuses to die
- Player ratings A day to forget for Hervé Boua Dié
- Player ratings Rémy Boissier never got going