The ESTAC Troyes Sentinel
Squad1 May 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fayyad Issilamou Hamza
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ESTAC Troyes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 May 2028
Tempers go at ESTAC Troyes
Alexsandro Ribeiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad1 May 2028
A row about effort at ESTAC Troyes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Merwan Ifnaoui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 May 2028
ESTAC Troyes count the cost of losing Ryan Guerda
41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout1 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Mounaïm El Idrissy
“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.
Loan watch1 May 2028
Yvann Titi has seen enough of Stade de Reims
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at ESTAC Troyes, and 16 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- The dugout Moustapha Mbow knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout When it matters, Lucas Zelaya plays
- The dugout The manager makes Paolo Gozzi a promise
- Market The Luca Pausé question follows ESTAC Troyes around