Kaïl Boudache

Attacking Midfielder (R) - FC Metz
27 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process
28 Edition

The FC Metz Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gauthier Hein

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

FC Metz share the spoils with Monaco

A 2-2 draw with Monaco leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Gauthier Hein is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.26 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

The academy watches Habib Diallo sit

31 years old, every age group at this club behind him, and a borrowed player of much the same standard in front of him every Saturday. The parents in the stand have noticed, and so has every kid below him.

Squad

Jessy Deminguet has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. FC Metz lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

Market

Jessy Deminguet linked with a move away

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

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tanner Tessmann 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 Olympique Lyonnais can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Pavel Šulc is carrying Olympique Lyonnais

7 goals and a season average of 7.44. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Adil Hamdani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adil Hamdani commits to Olympique Lyonnais for another 5 years.

Match

Olympique Lyonnais and Angers SCO take a point apiece

It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Abner Vinicius

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch

Ante Rebić keeps scoring at Trapani

20 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Market

Olympique Lyonnais and Lassine Diarra are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Loan watch

Rémi Himbert keeps scoring at Guidonia Montecelio

4 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad

Yannis Lagha asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief