Frankie Runham

Attacking Midfielder (R) - FC Metz U20
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Frankie Runham

52 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market26 Jul 2027

Pape Sy hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Metz can pretend not to have heard.

Market26 Jul 2027

FC Metz say no — this time

The offer from Esbjerg for Joseph Mangondo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad26 Jul 2027

A falling-out at FC Metz

Giorgi Kvilitaia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words at FC Metz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Devenish 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.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Frankie Runham signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Frankie Runham commits to FC Metz for another 4 years.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Yannis Lawson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yannis Lawson, and the manager let it.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Alpha Touré knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Metz, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Yannis Lawson gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yannis Lawson is on it.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

The manager makes Giorgi Abuashvili a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Metz. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

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51 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jul 2027

17 days out for Axel Ngando after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FC Metz will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market19 Jul 2027

Zoumana Diallo turns Podbrezova down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market19 Jul 2027

Heerenveen come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Metz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at FC Metz

Giorgi Kvilitaia 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.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Habib Diallo has improved at 32, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad19 Jul 2027

A move Frankie Runham 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. Frankie Runham is living that version at FC Metz, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market19 Jul 2027

FC Metz buy the years ahead of Frankie Runham

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market19 Jul 2027

Jonathan Fischer linked with a move away

The name of Jonathan Fischer keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FC Metz say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

When it matters, Jhonathan Caicedo 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.

In brief