The Angers SCO Courier
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Angers SCO bid $13.1M for Alexis Claude-Maurice
The offer went to FC Augsburg this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Santa Clara come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Angers SCO did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A career in one shirt: Pierrick Capelle
11 seasons and 457 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Market3 Aug 2026
Haris Belkebla raises the bar for Angers SCO
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Angers SCO heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Haris Belkebla stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Haris Belkebla and Angers SCO agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Angers SCO
Anthony Lopes 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Angers SCO training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Mouton 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ajax tell Angers SCO: Steven Berghuis is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Amine Sbaï
Still no offer on the table, and Amine Sbaï’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Bendegúz Kovács is in the works
- The dugout Louis Mouton knocks on the manager's door
- Market Melvin Zinga is free to find somewhere else