The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Market10 Jul 2028
Naouirou Ahamada 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 AJ Auxerre can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Jul 2028
Josué Casimir wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at AJ Auxerre hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Ilyas Chaira 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 AJ Auxerre know it.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Elikya Legros at AJ Auxerre
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elikya Legros is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Lucas Robbe arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lucas Robbe has, at AJ Auxerre, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
AJ Auxerre rebuffed over Filippo Pittarello
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pisa have kept their man, and AJ Auxerre go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at AJ Auxerre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danny Namaso 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 targets10 Jul 2028
AJ Auxerre try to borrow Andrija Novaković
Sassuolo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Ilyas Chaira 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 AJ Auxerre, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market The Kévin Danois story refuses to die
- The dugout Assane Dioussé has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Talks stall between AJ Auxerre and Enzo Crivelli