The RC Strasbourg Gazette
Squad30 Apr 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lassine Diarra
127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. RC Strasbourg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Layousse Samb breaks a bone — 104 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Deivid Washington: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” RC Strasbourg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Apr 2029
Tomás Gallay puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at RC Strasbourg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Thiago Almada 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 RC Strasbourg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Ismaël Doukouré 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.
Market30 Apr 2029
The Odsonne Édouard story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Odsonne Édouard signs something — a contract at RC Strasbourg or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
When it matters, Mateo Del Blanco plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Joseph Mangondo knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joseph Mangondo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Marc Vidal
- Market Lassine Diarra placed on the list
- Boardroom The RC Strasbourg production line keeps running