Marked for Thibault Delphis
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for FC Annecy
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around FC Annecy are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Annecy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
It needed Moïse Sahi Dion to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AS Saint-Etienne, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at FC Annecy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mattéo Veillon was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jean-Baptiste Martinez chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ahmed Kashi gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
When it matters, Kadan Young plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market28 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Thibault Delphis may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 61. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad21 Sep 2026
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match16 Sep 2026
FC Annecy through in the cup
A 0‑0 win over Le Mans FC, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ranjan Neelakandan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Annecy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for FC Annecy
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FC Annecy are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Florian Escales and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Louër, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
FC Annecy say no — this time
The offer from Stripfing for Ranjan Neelakandan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
FC Annecy asked and Olympique Lyonnais said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Thibault Rambaud and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Djibril Soumaré is in the works
FC Annecy have made the call to Braga. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jean-Baptiste Martinez chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The form table has caught Kadan Young
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.