The RC Strasbourg Gazette
Market3 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Youssef Oggadi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Youssef Oggadi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around RC Strasbourg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at RC Strasbourg
Joaquín Panichelli 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Gessime Yassine wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and RC Strasbourg know it.
Squad3 May 2027
A row about effort at RC Strasbourg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zisis Karachalios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 May 2027
Deivid Washington makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout3 May 2027
Dário Essugo is still paying for one afternoon at RC Strasbourg
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout3 May 2027
Sam Amo-Ameyaw 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
Karim Coulibaly 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 Karim Coulibaly trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 May 2027
The Sebastian Nanasi story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sebastian Nanasi signs something — a contract at RC Strasbourg or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Market Benjamin Camolli leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Deivid Washington
- Loan watch Martial Godo's loan at AC Ajaccio nearly up