The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Théo De Percin goes
FC Lorient paid $1.3M and AJ Auxerre took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sékou Mara the difference as AJ Auxerre beat FC Lorient
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sékou Mara. 1‑0 against FC Lorient, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Danny Namaso runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Francisco Sierralta 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 AJ Auxerre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Sékou Mara was the difference for AJ Auxerre
Marked 7.78. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at AJ Auxerre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tidiane Devernois 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
AJ Auxerre pick somebody else ahead of Tony Mendy
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Feydji Vienne makes his debut at 17
At 17 years old, Feydji Vienne became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market31 Aug 2026
The Jamal Gonzaga story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jamal Gonzaga signs something — a contract at AJ Auxerre or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Player ratings Josué Casimir ran the game
- Player ratings The referee tires of Elisha Owusu