Tomás Gallay

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144 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at RC Strasbourg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
142 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ignacio Pereira asks to leave RC Strasbourg

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at RC Strasbourg

Thiago Almada 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.

The dugout

Odsonne Édouard 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.

Squad

Ben House 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.

Squad

RC Strasbourg are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Loan watch

Mathis Amougou counts the days

“I watch every RC Strasbourg game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stade Rennais runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Tomás Gallay wants to go home

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

The dugout

Giovanni Reyna has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at RC Strasbourg will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Thiago Almada question follows RC Strasbourg around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thiago Almada’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

124 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

The dugout

Yvann Konan keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” RC Strasbourg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Diogo Sousa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diogo Sousa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around RC Strasbourg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sékou Mara

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

RC Strasbourg supporters have found a favourite in Sam Amo-Ameyaw

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Sam Amo-Ameyaw has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

RC Strasbourg are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Sékou Mara the difference as RC Strasbourg beat Paris FC

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sékou Mara. 1‑0 against Paris FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match

The half-term report on RC Strasbourg

Position 9, 27 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Squad

Words at RC Strasbourg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben House 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.

In brief